There are a couple of Object API methods of the Message object available via the Formativ applet language (including NotifyWhenOpened). However, my understanding is that these are of little use once a message leaves the confines of a GroupWise system.
Actualy the GWIA does support the RFC on this feature, but so few mail systems us it that’s its very unreliable.
I was looking for accessing the status “delivered” which can be seen in the Propoerties of a mail message. I can’t seem to find where that exists in the Object API.
I wrote an app that needed this a while back, and just turned on all recipts for sent mail, and used those receipts as notices that the mail has been read/deleted, but as you said, that only works within GroupWise.
As you mentioned, I don’t think the delivered status is accessible via the Object API. I did write something years ago that actually parsed the properties text of an item to determine this kind of information – very unpleasant.
We will have a look to see if it is possible to add support for this in the future (perhaps SP1).
Unfortunately, the technique I was thinking of only works with GroupWise 4.1a…
At this point I’d have to say that we can’t access this information. I have logged this as something to look at for version 2.0. I do suspect we will have to make a request to Novell to have this information made available.
