Re: [exim] Delivery Receipt

Oliver von Bueren wrote:
> Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>> On 11 Feb 2008, at 11:42, Gaurav Pruthi wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Is it possible to use delivery receipts in exim?
>>>
>> 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.
>

You can even remove the headers requesting such confirmation by putting
the following line in the appropriate router:

headers_remove = Disposition-Notification-To : Return-Receipt-To :
Receipt-Requested-To : Confirm-Reading-To : MDRcpt-To :
MDSend-Notifications-To : Smtp-Rcpt-To : Read-Receipt-To :
X-Confirm-Reading-To : X-Acknowledge-To : Delivery-Receipt-To : X-PMrqc
: Errors-To