Re: [exim] Delivery Receipt

Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> On 11 Feb 2008, at 11:42, Gaurav Pruthi wrote:
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>> Is it possible to use delivery receipts in exim?
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> The MUA receive receipts work fine via exim, although as normal some
> MUAs won't honour them and some people deliberately set MUAs to not
> honour them.
>
I would recommend anyone to configure his MUA to not automatically
confirm any message requesting such a thing, as you might end up
confirming the reception of messages you never even wanted to receive.
Such a feature might work well in a closed environment, but in the
internet at large it does not. Even worse if it's done at MTA level.

There was a recent discussion on the list about the use of out-of-office
messages. IMHO this is a very similar discussion. You can end up
producing a massive amount of automated response but still don't know
for sure if it works for the one important message it would be useful for.

Oliver