On 03/06/2012 14:46, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2012-06-03 4:43 AM, Ed W <li...@wildgooses.com> wrote:
Look, I can argue against the idea easily, personally my objection is
mail loops, but the point is that the customer demands it, and at
present that prevents me bidding for certain types of business...
Basically the customer just wants to repro what they got with Exchange
Then tell them their only option is to buy Exchange Server and Outlook
for everyone - but explain that this 'feature' *still* will not work
for recipients that are outside of your control (ie, it will only work
for local recipients - and I *think* it is possible to set up Trusts
with other external Exchange Servers, but not sure, and if it does, it
requires the explicit cooperation of the other systems admin).
Bottom line: do NOT promise the impossible to a client just to win the
business. It is a losing proposition, as you are beginning to see...
You have the situation backwards.
I think you know about the MailASail business. We run small ISP selling
mail accounts to customers. *our customers* want to voluntarily tell
senders when they have downloaded an email via POP. The basic
requirement is when the message is accessed via POP, then the sender
(presumably defined by the FROM address) is sent a notification.
Please don't argue about the spam aspects, etc - we are all on the same
page here. However, it's not an entirely foolish request - because the
customer is on dialup MDN implemented by the mail client isnt really
feasible, and DSN doesn't help us realise that the remote user has at
least connected and accessed the mail. So they are kind of asking for a
limited server side implementation of MDN. In fact this isn't that
unreasonable, it's just problematic and unusual.
Ed W
