Re: Successful Delivery Notification
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 -- Abstractions save us time working, but they don't save us time learning. --Joel Spolsky
Re: Successful Delivery Notification
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? rfc1891
Re: Successful Delivery Notification
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
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? -- Daniel