[Dovecot] Can we know when a user read our email?

Beto Moreno pamrtj at gmail.com
Tue May 15 03:18:37 EEST 2012


On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2012 19:55:16 +0300
> Timo Sirainen articulated:
>
>>On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 18:45 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>> >  I have seen some emails servers that if I send a email to other
>>> > person I can see if that person have read our emails and with a
>>> > option to delete the email if the person hasn't read our email.
>>> >
>>> >  Does dovecot have some like this feature?
>>>
>>> first dovecot is not a MTA, so no
>>> even if it would be a MTA think about
>>> how email works:
>>>
>>> * you send a message via SMTP over your MTA
>>> * your MTA dellivers the message to the target MX
>>> * how will you bring back any mail after that?
>>
>>This could work within a single email server, and could be useful in
>>situations like "oops, I just sent an unfinished email to colleague".
>>
>>There is also an expired draft to make it work across multiple servers:
>>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-leiba-morg-message-recall-00
>
> Thanks Timo, I was not aware that there was a draft addressing this. It
> certainly would be useful in certain environments.
>
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This feature I'm speaking is users from the same domain not externals domains.

Maybe is a Exchange feature I don't know because I have seen the email
client but just the client side and don't have any contact with the IT
side.

Thanks!!!


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