Subject: Re: Mail receipts control

From: [email-masked] (James E Robinson)
Date: 14 Apr 1996 23:49:31 GMT

On 14 Apr 1996 20:40:58 GMT, Achim Jung <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>In my job I write many e-mails each day (normally from 50 to 150).
>This is an amount which makes it difficult to check whether all
>mail has been received by the recipients. Thus I need an automated
>control. I would like to have something like this:
>1. Every mail I write is stored in a sent folder (no problem).
>2. If a receipt is returning it starts a program/script which
>   looks for the corresponding mail and moves it to a different
>   folder (e.g. sent+received).
>3. a cronjob scans the sent folder every night and complains about
>   mails which are older than 3 days.
>
>Does anybody know how 2 and 3 can be done? I would really appreciate
>if anybody can send me a mailfilter, procmail, ... configuration which
>works for similar jobs. 
>
>Thanks in advance for help!

 Hi,
  First, I have found Return Receipt to be not very reliable.

  Secondly, if the mail server will return you a receipt, that doesn't
mean the mail got to the intended persons mail reader.  Case in point,
POP servers.  Send mail to me and you'll get a receipt back quickly, I
may never POP it off and read it (on vacation), or server may crash, etc.

   However, I'm sure what you want can be done.

   Have a great week,
      James

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From: [email-masked] (Achim Jung)
Date: 14 Apr 1996 20:40:58 GMT

Hi!

Regards, Achim
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Achim Jung                                             [email-masked]