mail over smtp

shabtay has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: mail over smtp by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 17, 2006 at 00:40 UTC
Net::POP3? Net::IMAP? (And MIME::Lite to send it.)	[reply]
Re^2: mail over smtp by jettero (Monsignor) on Dec 17, 2006 at 03:31 UTC
MIME::Lite is sweet. I'm apparently really behind the times. I was about to suggest Net::SMTP (I love that one) — it would seem I could even use both: `$net_smtp->datasend( $mime_lite_obj->as_str );` or even `MIME::Lite->send('smtp', "smtp.myisp.net", Timeout=>60);`. See? This is why I love perl monks. -Paul	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: mail over smtp by derby (Abbot) on Dec 17, 2006 at 02:41 UTC
more code please. you don't tell us how your creating the email ... more specifically, how you're creating the email headers. Basically, you need to set the `Disposition-Notification-To` header. -derby	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: mail over smtp by atcroft (Abbot) on Dec 17, 2006 at 03:42 UTC
And receiving them depends on several things (including, but not limited to): A cooperating mail client; that is, the receiving mail client is set¹ (or is permitted²) to return those when requested. There is nothing that filters them³. So if you want a guarantee⁴ that they opened it, call them up and ask. Notes: Most mail client programs I am familiar with have settings which allow you to decide what to do with those requests. I have set my mail client to ask, and generally prohibit it from responding to those requests. I have seen bounce messages from spam or other filtering systems where the requested responses were blocked by the server the requester used, for whatever reason. The use of "web bugs" and the like (see also) also may not work, as some mail clients can be configured to not display images^{5, 6}, and the presence of a "web bug" may give your email a better chance of being caught by spam filtering. I have that disabled as well. Then there are also mail clients like pine and mutt, which run in console sessions.	[reply]