Re: How to send a return receipt
Hi,
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:54:16PM +0200, Rado S wrote:
> color header ^dispo... color1 color2
that is what I currently do, but you cannot call this a notification.
In fact it is nothing more then a mark. And so its a workaround again.
> One action: macro(s).
Well, you are right that this enables me to write a return receipt by just one
keypress (although it requires me to write a script that actually does a MUAs
job), but again it is just a workaround because what you (and others, and me if
it is abused by people) find annoying is what this feature lives from.
It is like the question: "Should all messages flagged as deleted beeing
purged?". For a big number of users its neccessary to ask this or similar
questions, because otherwise it won't work. Its not that clear for that purge
message, but if you think about it you may come to the conclusion that its a
lot more clearer for the message disposition thing.
> Simple to me.
Well, its not that hard to achieve it, but it isn't simple either. One needs to
write a script, test it, configure a macro -- the last one is by far the
simplest
part. Its possible, but error prone, again.
> Well, milage varies. Some like mutt for its current nature of
> simplicity and flexibility. Obviously not all do, and prefer mutt to
> transform into some suit-all-easily beast, which requires some more
> code not used by all/ many "classic" mutters. As usual, we never
> know the exact numbers and therefore who's right.
Ehh. You miss that I ask about a very common and wide spread feature, not about
something all to specific. I actually like mutt because of its flexibility and
I don't want it to be a suit-all-easily beast. Again: I'm not asking for
a feature that cooks my morning coffee, but other then that I ask for a feature
which is wide spread and often used in business. You
should have seen in this thread, that I am not the only one that thinks that
this is a common feature.
> No message-hooks needed.
Well, but they are the only possibility to make it nagging enough. ;)
> Not needed either: when you see it, you decide to press the key or
> not.
That does not work. Not for me and not for a lot of others. It could be
configurable, one could diable MDN at all or just not let it nag them with a
question, but for those that need it nagging it can be like that.
> It's just one of many other "mutt must have".
I don't know whats those 'many other', but mutt does support nearly all common
email features I am aware off. It even supports Delivery Status Notifications
that are (as far as I can see that) less wideley supported and therefore even
more useless. So i don't *understand* the reasoning to not add another
*common*, *widespread* _and_ *wideused* feature. Its different from doing my
homework, coffee or whatsoever. Really.
-Patrick