Re: "proving" a user received an email (good gosh)

From: Bruno Wolff III (bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu)
Date: 06/25/02 

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@cerberus.csd.uwm.edu>
Date: 25 Jun 2002 12:04:29 GMT

In article <188cd7b2.0206241930.5e0bc1b8@posting.google.com>, gaius.petronius wrote:
> "D. Stussy" <kd6lvw@bde-arc.ampr.org> wrote in message news:<Pine.LNX.4.44.0206241915150.3250-100000@exp.bde-arc.ampr.org>...
>>
>> >
>> >is there a method to log the received message id?
>>
>> Next time, use the DSN (Delivery Status Notification) extensions to e-mail.
>
> Is that on the client end?
> Or is that sendmail?

It is something handled by the MTA at final delivery. There are problems
with turning this on. It was disabled on the main mail servers here after
someone had a vacation responder that would reply to DSN replies with
a message requesting another DSN reply.

It someone really needs a confirmation that the message was read by a human,
it should ask for a confirmation in the body of the message.

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