[imp] Re: IMP 3.1 & Return Receipt or Delivery Notification

[Nate Mollring]

Quoting Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter@physics.utexas.edu>:

> Quoting Minh Thi Trinh <minh.thi.trinh@UMontreal.CA>:
> 
> > I mean between users of IMP ONLY.  Supposely you and I are using IMP 3.1
> as
> > email.  I want to get a delivery notification after sending you a message.
> It
> > would then depend on you mail server which generates or not the
> notification,
> > even if you also have IMP 3.1 installed on it?
> 
> I believe that is correct for delivery receipts (but not for read receipts).
> 
> In other words, read receipts are handled by IMP, delivery receipts are
> handled by the MTA (sendmail, postfix, exchange, etc).
>  
> > I do not mentionned other email systems, as far as I know, Outlook would
> > generate the return receipt to the sender when the sender uses IMP 3.1 to
> > send message with the option Delivery Notification.
> 
> My understanding (which could be wrong) is that MTA (e.g. exchange) would
> generate the delivery receipt,  and outlook (MUA) and/or exchange (MTA) 
> could generate the read receipt.
> 
> In other words, I don't think IMP ever matters in delivery receipts, but
> does in read receipts.  Anyway, I'm sure someone else on the list will
> clear this all up with more authority than I can.
> 
I think your correct in saying read reciepts are the client's responsibility 
and delivery receipts are the servers repsonsibility--that is my understanding 
anyway.  We have almost totally switched over to IMP for all email here.  I 
have read receipts turned off because they don't work when sent to another IMP 
user(which is 95 percent of our users) It would be nice if imp could do 
something with the read receipt on an incoming email--upon opening a message a 
small windows that says "do you want to send a read receipt to the sender" for 
example.
Nate