Sending a delivery report via code

[PreacherUK]

Hi All

I was just wondering if its possible to send a delivery report (the thing thats sent by notes when you view an email which someone has marked to be notified about) either with some code or by forcing a normal email to look like/be a delivery report?

 

[pmonett]

You can always force a delivery report, all you need to do is write some script that will create a new document, name it "DeliveryReport", fill in the required fields and send it.

Beware of replicating this functionality, lest you inadvertantly remove the meaning of it.

A delivery report is normally something the sender requests to know if or not his mail has been delivered. As such, it is normally the recipient's server that returns the delivery report.

Any tampering with this, and you risk removing the validity of the server response by generating a false delivery report.

Maybe you should think of putting a special subject in the report, so that the originator knows that this particular delivery report was not generated by a server, or something to signal that its specificity.

Pascal.

 

[pmonett]

Sorry, ending of previous post is wrong. Please read "to signal its specificity".

Pascal.