carol said:
I would like to be able to send automatic read receipts even when they
haven't been requested. Is this possible?
Thanks
Since the header for the read receipt request inserted by the sender
specifies to where the sender wants to receive the acknowledgement
e-mails, and since that header will be absent in e-mails that you
receive where the sender did not request an acknowledgement, then how do
you know where to send your *bogus* acknowledgements? It may not be to
the sender's e-mail address but to some other e-mail address.
Also, if the sender is an automated mailer, like you subscribed to a
newsletter, how are YOU going to handle the error e-mails that are
returned from the server when you send it e-mails that do not contain
any commands that it understands? You send it an e-mail and it might
try to read those to see what commands were specified, like you wanting
to unsubscribe, change subscriptions, change your e-mail address, and so
on. Since your bogus acknowledgement doesn't contain the proper
commands, it returns an error message saying something like "unknown
command".
Why are you being rude to senders that haven't requested a receipt from
you? Would you want everyone to whom you send e-mail to spew out
e-mails at you when you don't want them, especially since it is
obviously not a *person* that is responding? So what is this vengeance
scheme you are trying to employ?
