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Re: How to send a return receipt



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On Saturday, October 13 at 12:50 PM, quoth Patrick Schoenfeld:
>On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 07:35:02PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
>> Thus, any message that does not have an X-Disposition-Sent header is a 
>> message that you haven't sent a response to, and messages that DO have 
>> such a header won't trigger the macro.
>
>That does not work (at least in my case) because the TO-address is (often)
>forwarded to a group of people, where one might not send such a confirmation,
>when another already did. So a question is probably the best way to go, because
>the people in the group usually know if someone already sent the confirmation.
>
>> I don't see what that missing functionality might be. Maybe I'm 
>> missing something.
>
>Well, see above. The ideas others and I had so far are all lacking something,
>that the MDA functions gives.

How does an MDA-enabled client communicate to other clients that a 
given email has already been responded to? And what's stopping the 
send-mdn.sh script from asking the user a question?

~Kyle
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