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

Michael Orlitzky michael at orlitzky.com
Sun Jun 3 20:21:56 EEST 2012


On 06/03/12 12:06, Robert Schetterer wrote:
> Am 03.06.2012 16:24, schrieb Michael Orlitzky:
>>
>> I for one think the plugin is a good idea.
> 
> what the hell , should the plugin do and how ?
> there is smtp dsn, nothing more makes sense
> 
> looking to the thread subject , you need to have new internet standard
> called
> 
> "braindump over tcp"
> 
> this doesnt exist on exchange too
> 
> mail is smtp, dovecot is no smtp server
> 

You could trigger on the 'seen' flag, and Dovecot is more than capable
of generating messages, especially to mailboxes under its control (see:
sieve).

But... who cares? The worst possible thing that can happen is that he
writes it and makes his customers happy and you pretend it doesn't exist.



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