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

[Jerry]

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.

-- 
Jerry ♔

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