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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Mail delivery confirmation Post 70372 by RTM on Thursday 28th of April 2005 09:02:19 AM
Old 04-28-2005
See "Disposition-Notification-To Header" in RFC 2298 - Message format for message disposition - this give you a quick look at the fact that it can be done.

See "X-Confirm-Reading-To" Tracking E-mail - note that it states most email programs ingnore it.

The only thing I can't seem to find is where you would add this confirmation request - I thought sendmail didn't have this option and found on a qmail archive the following:
Quote:
> Hi,
>
> I swith one old sendmail server for qmail and everythings is working
> fine except one things. With the old server, my users can have a
> "Confirmation delivery", I mean when they send mail, the smtp server
> send them a mail to tell them that the mail was delivery successfully.
> Does qmail can do this

qmail doesn't support this natively. There may be patches floating
around to support it, but I haven't used them; Google should be able
to turn them up if they exist.
Yet I could not find on Sendmail's site anything about it.

Of course, maybe I should have read the man page for 'mail' first! Check yours and look for option of /delivery or delivery notification - may be what you are looking for.
Last edited by RTM; 04-28-2005 at 10:11 AM..
 

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qmail-local

qmail-local(8)                                                System Manager's Manual                                               qmail-local(8)

NAME

       qmail-local - deliver or forward a mail message

SYNOPSIS

       qmail-local [ -nN ] user homedir local dash ext domain sender defaultdelivery

DESCRIPTION

       qmail-local reads a mail message and delivers it to user by the procedure described in dot-qmail(5).

       The  message's  envelope  recipient  is local@domain.  qmail-local records local@domain in a new Delivered-To header field.  If exactly the
       same Delivered-To: local@domain already appears in the header, qmail-local bounces the message, to prevent mail forwarding loops.

       The message's envelope sender is sender.  qmail-local records sender in a new Return-Path header field.

       homedir is the user's home directory.  It must be an absolute directory name.

       dash and ext identify the .qmaildashext file used by qmail-local; see dot-qmail(5).  Normally dash is either empty or a lone hyphen.  If it
       is  empty,  qmail-local  treats  a nonexistent .qmailext the same way as an empty .qmailext: namely, following the delivery instructions in
       defaultdelivery.

       The standard input for qmail-local must be a seekable file, so that qmail-local can read it more than once.

OPTIONS

       -n     Instead of reading and delivering the message, print a description of the delivery instructions.

       -N     (Default.) Read and deliver the message.

EXIT CODES

       0 if the delivery is completely successful; nonzero if any delivery instruction failed.  Exit code 111 indicates temporary failure.

SEE ALSO

       dot-qmail(5), envelopes(5), qmail-command(8), qmail-queue(8), qmail-send(8), qmail-lspawn(8)

                                                                                                                                    qmail-local(8)
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