> Well, the first thing that springs to my mind is some sort of > message-hook (since that's what triggers when you view a message).
The difficulty with this approach is that you don't want to send an MDN response any time you read the message, so you need to track whether the message has ever been read and MDN-replied to. You can do this with formail -D, but that involves an external Message-ID cache, separate from the message store, wherever that might be. I suppose that's one reason that Werner chose to implement this as a patch instead of as a set of macros/script(s). But it might not be compelling for everyone. The patch certainly provides better functionality than hooks, macros, and scripts do, given the usual constraints. Whether the better functionality is necessary functionalty is debatable, but I'm not sure it's worthwhile to debate it unless committers are wavering about committing the patch. Otherwise it's clear what you should do: patch mutt if you're comfortable patching, or settle for scripts if they're sufficient. -- -D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] NSIT University of Chicago "Polka music needs to prevail." John Ziobrowski, Polka America Corporation