MDN (Message Disposition Notification): This field requests the status of the E-mail message after delivery through the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) transport system. Once the message has arrived at the receiver, this data is used when the machine or user reads the received E-mail. For example, if the message is opened for reading, the receiver sends back a notification to the original sending machine or user. The receiver must support the MDN field in order to be able to send a notification report, otherwise the request will be ignored. |