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Message tracking

List owner can verify message delivery and disposition for each message using a special feature that can configutred for a robot or a list.

If the list is configured for tracking, outgoing messages include a “delivery status notification” request and optionnaly a “message disposition notification” request. This allows list owner to verify for each mail who did not received the message but also who received it and who displayed it.

Notification (both positive status and negative status are stored and can be used later to prove that a message was delivered or displayed by its recipient.

When active tracking overright VERP parameter to 100%. Of course, tracking may be expensive.

Two different modes can be used for tracking :

Tracking feature is accessible in archive web page when list owner display a message where tracking was actived. It require to support VERP so a plussed aliases is needed.

The following screen copy is a part of the tracking information of one message from a list archive. Email address are hidden in this image for privacy reason.

Setup

Acknowledgements

This feature was added in version 6.2. It’s a contribution from french army “DGA Maitrise de l’Information”.

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