[PLUG-TALK] MUAs and "Mail Opened" Indicator

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Feb 1 13:50:56 UTC 2008


On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Paul Johnson wrote:

>>    1) Can outlook determine if the message has been opened when the
>> recipient's MUA is pine, mutt, elm, Thunderchicken, Sylpheed, or something
>> other than Outlook?
>
> Yes, using IMAP.
>
>>    2) Is this capability of determining whether recipients have seen a sent
>> message available in any other MUA?
>
> I think it's universally enough supported in IMAP that you don't have
> to sweat it.

   So, I need to read about IMAP to understand how it works.

Thank you,

Rich

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