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Peter,

This isn't an issue of how the AS/400 deals with email.  It is how the
world deals with email.

For example, I use Outlook.  In that, you can tell it to a)
Automatically send notices (Delivery, Read and Deleted), or b) Never
send them and c) Ask.

I use c.  So if you request a notification, I MIGHT let one be sent to
you!  It just depends on what I want to do at that particular moment.

If you need to know that your notices have been delivered, use Fax.
But even then you can not be 100% sure.  But you DO know that it got
delivered (or not) to the fax machine at the other end.  Of course, you
have no idea what happens to it after that.  But you do have a much
higher confidence that it got delivered than with email.

Regards,
Bob Crothers

PS: And before anybody jumps on me, I am very involved in the Fax
world....I'm not trying to advertise (notice that my company name is
NOT in this email!)...just trying to be upfront.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Peter_Vidal@pall.com
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 2:34 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: SNDDST Confirmation of Delivery - Internet (Outside World)


Bob Crothers said:
"You must be careful about what is truly meant by "delivered" in the
email
world!"

Bob!  Thank you for the orientation.   The original intention is to
determine
the date the recipient reads the email message and then, with the
delivery
notification, we can actually read this confirmation and somehow update
the
record with some kind of "email delivery date" or something like that.
However,
based on your explanation, I think that the way that the AS400 behaves
when
dealing with email messages is a little different from what it was
expected.  I
think that now the ball must return to the users' court and they must
understand
this issue and eventually decide which alternate solution(s) may be
available,
feasible and acceptable.

Thanks again Bob!

Peter Vidal
Pall Aeropower Corp. / SR Programmer Analyst




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