Re: Successful Delivery Notification

2010-01-18 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
On 2010-01-17 Daniel L. Miller wrote:
 Other than scanning the logfiles, is there a way a service can receive
 notification of a successful delivery to a remote site?  In other
 words,  a trusted client submits mail for a remote site, Postfix
 connects and  receives acknowledgement from the remote site, and then
 notifies a local  process of the result?

No. SMTP doesn't work that way, because the next hop isn't necessarily
the final destination of the mail.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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Re: Successful Delivery Notification

2010-01-18 Thread Ziroux

On 18/01/10 07:31, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
Other than scanning the logfiles, is there a way a service can receive 
notification of a successful delivery to a remote site?  In other 
words, a trusted client submits mail for a remote site, Postfix 
connects and receives acknowledgement from the remote site, and then 
notifies a local process of the result?




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Re: Successful Delivery Notification

2010-01-18 Thread Wietse Venema
Daniel L. Miller:
 Other than scanning the logfiles, is there a way a service can receive 
 notification of a successful delivery to a remote site?  In other words, 
 a trusted client submits mail for a remote site, Postfix connects and 
 receives acknowledgement from the remote site, and then notifies a local 
 process of the result?

Postfix 2.3 and later implement RFC 3461 (SMTP DSN Extension).
This allows SMTP clients to specify how the sender wants to be
informed of successful, delayed or failed deliveries.

Wietse



Successful Delivery Notification

2010-01-17 Thread Daniel L. Miller
Other than scanning the logfiles, is there a way a service can receive 
notification of a successful delivery to a remote site?  In other words, 
a trusted client submits mail for a remote site, Postfix connects and 
receives acknowledgement from the remote site, and then notifies a local 
process of the result?


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Daniel