Re: [Evolution] delivery status notification

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Sat, 2015-07-18 at 07:23 -0500, Andre Klapper wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-07-16 at 10:03 -0400, dave boland wrote:
> > I'm having some issues with my ISP getting e-mail delivered.  Read 
> > about
> > delivery status notification and was wondering if Evolution supported
> > this and how to use it.  Did not see any mention of it in the
> > documentation or using the web site search tool.  
>
> Could you elaborate what exactly you refer to? Normally your *server*
> sends you delivery status notifications in case of failure, in form of
> an email. So there would be nothing specific about Evolution here.

The above is correct; this is not a feature of Evolution but SMTP
industry-standard practice.

> Only slightly related functionality I'm aware of is
> https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/mail-read-receipts.html
> which could be seen by some people as tracking recipients when they
> read their emails (=privacy concerns).

Yes, DSN is completely, totally, and entirely on the shoulders of the
recipient.  Evolution handles DSN correctly, provided the receiver
processes the DSN request [most will not].