Am 02.06.2012 11:53, schrieb Ed W:
On 14/05/2012 17:38, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 08:56 -0700, Beto Moreno 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? This doesn't really work with IMAP/POP3 protocols. It requires Exchange or something else.
What would be possible is to check if a user has _downloaded_ your message, but many clients download messages immediately when they arrive so it might not be very useful. And in any case Dovecot has no such feature.
Situation is that several of our competitors offer such a feature
others doing something stupid is not a good argument
provide an alert back to the sender when your email has been "accessed/downloaded" by the remote user.
you realize that this is only possible if the RCPT is on your own server and not remote mails?
Personally I don't think it's a great feature and my competitor's implementations often cause mail loops and other nasties
which should be enough for argumentation why such things are making more damage as they solve problems and they are only working for non-relay mails
However, bottom line is that you can't win the bid if you can't offer the feature...
surely YOU can win, you must learn to sell quality and explain why you are not doing anything someone wishes if you are sure that it is a bd idea
why would i want a customer which enforces me to impelement a solution where i am sure that it is stupid - if he does not understand my argumentation he better is not my customer