[OCLUG-Tech] humour, for no reason whatsoever

2012-01-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
eddie izzard on technology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6C_HjWr3Nk ok, back to work. rday ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how does current email protocol support mail receipt verification?

2012-01-07 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 01:54:33PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote: > In general, there might be a few mail servers between you and > the ultimate recipient, and you would need to look at the last > one to tell if the letter had been delivered to where the recipient > would be able to read it. This

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how does current email protocol support mail receipt verification?

2012-01-07 Thread Brenda J. Butler
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 10:59:25PM -0500, Shawn H Corey wrote: > If my machine marks it as read This is local to your machine and may or may not be implemented by your mail user agent (MUA). Most MUA's implement it, actually. > and sends back a receipt saying so, the This is not part of the S

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how does current email protocol support mail receipt verification?

2012-01-07 Thread Derek Murphy (Simba 64 bit)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > we started talking about sending out email, and whether it was > technically possible to "verify" whether an e-mail was received and/or > read. To verify whether the mail in question reached the destinat