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

Beto Moreno pamrtj at gmail.com
Tue May 15 15:59:47 EEST 2012


On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Stan Hoeppner <stan at hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> On 5/14/2012 7:18 PM, Beto Moreno wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I've only seen this feature in MS Exchange.  It may also exist in Notes
> and GroupWise.  These are the primary 3 corporate (i.e. PAID) groupware
> platforms.  As they serve the office drone masses they apparently need
> such a feature.  Consider this scenario:
>
> Guys at the water cooler play a sick joke telling a gullible fellow
> drone that he's been fired.  Drone believes it, emails an inflammatory
> letter of resignation to his boss before packing his things.  Just after
> he hits send the guys tell him it was a joke...
>
> This "unsend" feature was created to protect idiots from themselves,
> nothing more.  Which is why the IETF draft went nowhere.
>
> You can only "fix" some types of human stupidity with software.  This is
> not one of them.
>
> --
> Stan

hahahaha ok.

Thanks all of u guys for your input, I will forget this, thanks again!!!


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