Finding friends via Internet

Yesterday a very good friend of my -wich lives far away right now- send me an email 'cause she has found my web page and maybe this blog...

It's peculiar since all my page it's about Linux and technology related, in fact when I ask her how she comes to my page she says she was looking for a friend wich surname is exactly like mine: Benavent.

Qmail and Delivery Notifications it runs!

I've been done some test on Notice Request Upon Delivery to which is basiclly a simple mail send to original sender to notify a mail message has been succesfully delivered to receiver.

You need:

1. Linux knowledge :-)
2. qmail installed and running (with Maildirs)
3. postmaster administration access
4. fairly good mail client (telnet to 25 port it's a good choice)

You have to do

1. edit .qmail for user joe@nowhere.mil and append this before .Maildir line:
   |qreceipt joe@nowhere.mil
   (or full path |/var/qmail/bin/qreceipt joe@nowhere.mil)
   
2. when you send a message to joe@nowhere.mil append this header:
   Notice-Requested-Upon-Delivery-To: sender@original.com

What you obtains:
when sender@original.com sends an email to joe@nowhere.mil and this mail it's delivered inside sender@original.com Maildir, then joe@nowhere.mil receives an email from: DELIVERY NOTICE SYSTEM with subject: success notice and with body:
Hi. This is qreceipt program. Your message was delivered to the following addrees: oe@nowhere.mil. Thanks for asking.