[PLUG-TALK] MUAs and "Mail Opened" Indicator
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Feb 1 19:40:16 UTC 2008
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Galen Seitz wrote:
> I think there's some confusion here. I think Paul thought you were asking
> whether when a single recipient, using two different MUAs to read email,
> does one MUA know when the other has opened a given email.
Galen,
That's not what I was asking.
> Richard, I assume you were asking whether any common Linux MUA supports
> notifying the sender that an email has been opened.
Yes.
> In Thunderbird these are called 'Return Receipts', and I believe that they
> are disabled by default.
I thought this might be the case. But, text-based MUAs don't do this.
> I suspect most Linux users consider return receipts a waste of
> bandwidth, if not an invasion of privacy. I would expect most Linux
> MUAs to either not support them, or have them default to disabled.
I, too, consider them an invasion of privacy. Either I get a response to a
message I send, or I don't. Knowing the recipient read the message but chose
to not respond is less valuable than not getting any response. Also, I don't
particularly want anyone using a Microsoft MUA to know whether I read the
received message, but elected to ignore it.
Thanks for the clarification.
Rich
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