Rafael,
There is no notification process built in to IMail that informs someone when
email is read. I can send email to you and when you read it, I get a
notification that you read the mail. This is called Return Reciepts, and I
have to configure my client, to send them with the email. There is another
form of RR that tells me when the email gets to your server.
Depending on the method of access to a user account and the version of IMail
you are running, IMail creates a file, lastlog.in, in each users folder.
This is an empty file, but its date/time, shows when that user logged in,
but cannot indicate if the user read his mail.
The only other information about maibox and its contents, is the .uid files
in each mailbox. This contains status of each message, but in a propietary
format, so I have no details I can share.
If the users use POP3 and download all messages, then the size of main.mbx,
being zero, would show that the user has gotten all his email (but not that
he read it!). Since IMAP4 and Web Messaging, leave undeleted email in the
mailbox, these would not be a good method to give you the needed info.
The only other way one might tell the state of an individual mailbox, might
be to use IMail Client, on the server, to check each account. Been a while
since I did this, but it might show the read/unread status of each message
(but if you 'read' one, that could change the status, and the user might
wonder if he really did 'read' that message).
Daniel Donnelly
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rafael Manjarrez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 2:10 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Question on Imail reception
> Question: Is there any way to know if someone has read his email?
>
> I am using Imail as an Archive server, I�ve disabled all Template Options,
I
> allow only 1 Domain to send Imails there and any other domain goes NULL, I
> need to know if there is a way for imail to tell me that the customer has
> read his archive.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rafael Manjarrez
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