Cyber fixers now at PC near you! (Hindustan Times) [LWN.net]

Hindustan Times reports that Bangalore-based DeepRoot Linux has come out with its 'DeepOfix' messaging server. ""It handles e-mail, fights spam and scans your mail. What most solutions take a week to do, our software does in 35 minutes. It has the ability to track e-mail, so that you know whether an e-mail you've sent has reached the receiver or not," Abhas Abhinav, who heads DeepRoot, said."

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SMTP doesn't record mail receipt

Posted May 30, 2005 19:04 UTC (Mon) by copsewood (subscriber, #199) [Link] (2 responses)

Internet SMTP gets acceptance by the next relay (most of the time). It doesn't get acceptance acknowledgement by the final recipient. This particular privacy intrusion only occurs where proprietary systems talk to each other using an extended protocol which goes beyond the purposes and semantics of SMTP.

SMTP doesn't record mail receipt

Posted May 31, 2005 0:42 UTC (Tue) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link] (1 responses)

It's not smtp per se, it's the extra headers which are read and written by mail clients. If your mail client doesn't grok those headers, then they don't get a return receipt. mozilla for instance does understand them, but gives the reader the choice of allowing the return receipt to be sent or not.

SMTP doesn't record mail receipt

Posted May 31, 2005 14:36 UTC (Tue) by Arker (guest, #14205) [Link]

Yes. It's hard to see how they could track email any more than anyone else, without breaking the protocol and only communicating with other sites using the same program. Which might technically work, but I'm estimating their install base and thinking it wouldn't really be practical...

GPL compliance?

Posted May 31, 2005 15:37 UTC (Tue) by charlieb (guest, #23340) [Link]

Nothing available at http://www.deeproot.co.in/support/downloads - and no mention of GPL anywhere?

" Our committment to the gnu/Linux and Free Software community remains one of the strongest reasons for our work."

It would be nice to see them share credit with the creators of the building blocks they are using. Fully complying with the license would be a bonus...