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From: indra@ashirvad.amd.com (Indra Singhal)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Confirm on open in elm ?
Summary: Certified mail with elm.
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.162037.7631@amd.com>
Date: 19 Nov 90 16:20:37 GMT
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Office automation packages like Applix's Alis provide a feature that
tells the sender whether a mail message was viewed, filed or deleted by
the receipient and the time and date the action was taken. This has
become a requirement now that our company is moving towards automation
and a paperless office.

Not everyone uses Alis. If elm could send such a 'confirmation on open'
message back to the sender, perhaps, based on the presence of an
X-Confirm: header line, we could push elm as the corporate standard MUA.

How difficult would the implementation be? Would the development team
consider it for a future release? How useful would this feature be to
the rest of the user community?

Thank you.


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