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Re: [nmh-workers] logging outgoing messages
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Michael Richardson |
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Re: [nmh-workers] logging outgoing messages |
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Wed, 10 Jul 2019 15:34:18 -0400 |
Back to logging outgoing messages.
A reason that people want to do this is so that they can track whether emails
get delivered or not. Given spam, nobody reads postmaster bounces anymore.
(I remember when I got CC's of all bounces...)
So three things that I've wanted to implement for awhile (20 years..) are:
1) processing of postmaster bounces, with a way to link back to anno
so that the outgoing message can be marked.
Yes, bounces come in all sorts of forms, but they always reference
the message-id. At one point, I wanted to put something cryptographic
in it, but essentially DKIM has done this for us.
2) processing of Return-Receipt-To: messages to anno that the email
got delivered. Not a guarantee that they were read, but it
does prove they got off your laptop. (whether you queue locally,
because... airplanes, or deliver directly)
3) processing of Disposition-Notification-To: which does not work
in a lot of MUAs, but where it works, it works hilariously well.
Basically, I'm asking for TCP ACK at application layer.
I regularly re-edit emails in my outbox with mh-e, although there are issues
relating to GPG signatures and some other headers that mean I have to clean
stuff up before sending.
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- Re: [nmh-workers] logging outgoing messages, Ralph Corderoy, 2019/07/10
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