[imp] Read receipts

Jan Schneider jan@horde.org
Fri, 11 Jan 2002 17:10:23 +0100


Zitat von Henry Blackman <h.blackman@chester.ac.uk>:

> Hello.
> 
> A question, something I'm not sure about.  Read receipts in IMP 3,
> firstly
> read receipts aren't sent from our other main client (Pegasus) when
> requested from IMP.  I'm blaming Pegasus for not doing this properly,
> the
> headers it seems to require are:
> 
> X-Confirm-Reading-To: email@domain.com
> X-pmrqc: 1
> Return-receipt-to: email@domain.com
> 
> Or at least those are the headers it sends.  I've patch my IMP 3 here to
> add
> those headers (keeping the "Disposition-Notification-To" in there too),
> and
> it seems to do it's job now (additionally Outlook doesn't
> complain/malfunction with the extra headers).  Just to check, is Pegasus
> wrong to use these headers, or is IMP/Outlook?  Which is the correct
> method,
> or is there one?

No, there is no standard for this feature. And this also the answer to your 
second question.
 
> Also, and more importantly, is IMP supposed to send a read receipt
> itself
> when a mail is opened that is flagged for the sender to receive a read
> receipt?  I'm wondering because that is probably our most requested
> features
> here... A "feature" I personally find annoying, but still.
> 
> TIA,
> Henry
> 
> 
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Jan.

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