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List:       twig
Subject:    Re: [twig] subject line in "read receipts"
From:       "Craig Foster" <craig () wiw ! org>
Date:       2001-08-24 19:46:13
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"Disposition notification"?!?  What does that mean anyway?!  I have forwarded 
your message to the twig-devel list for further discussion.

If you want to hack the code yourself, you probably want to start in 
features/mail/mail.mdn.inc.php3.


-- 
Craig Foster
craig@wiw.org



Kyle Silfer <kyle.silfer@alibi.com> said:

> I have received several comments from my users regarding Twig's response to 
> "read receipt" requests. We have lots of Twig-to-Twig mail here as we have 
an 
> interoffice network with 100% Twig clients. When Twig responds to its own 
> requests for a "read receipt" the subject is the generic "disposition 
> notification". This is not so helpful if you have lots of return receipts 
> coming back to you.
> 
> On our old mail system (and with many current email clients), the read 
receipt 
> request is answered with an email that contains the subject of the initial 
> message in its response (e.g., something like "RCPT: your subject here). 
This 
> is very useful when you have sent out a couple of different email messages 
with 
> different subjects to the same person or persons. If the subject was in the 
> read receipt response, there would be no real need to actually open the 
message 
> and read it to see what email was actually opened and displayed. Since this 
is 
> webmail, economy of click-and-display can really reduce mail-reading time.
> 
> I can commiserate with my users. I myself prefer to see the subject 
displayed 
> instead of "disposition notification". Is there a way to hack Twig into 
> accomplishing this? 
> 
> ./k
> 
> 

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