want help to develop a mail tracking application

hi,

i want to develop an application which can keep track a mail.for example a candidate x sends a mail to y,now y forward it to z.now x want to know the status of his mail.how i can keep track the status of this mail.

suggestions welcome .

with regards,

siba

[304 byte] By [sibaprasad] at [2007-9-26 8:41:50]
# 1

Hi,sibaprasad:

What you want is typical workflow apps. There are two way in common.

(1)Groupware

like domino or exchage

(2)DB-driven workflow

Your can store the status and other properties in database and you must develop a event engine.

There are many products in commerce.

netgo at 2007-7-1 19:29:55 > top of Java-index,Enterprise & Remote Computing,Enterprise Technologies...
# 2

hi friend,

thanks for ur suggestion.

our organisation has a mail service using java Api.but people frequently use the Netscape configured mail system.i am not getting how to make the system alert while some one forwarding a message in Netsacpe mail system.is there any java mail api to handle this event?

suggestions most welcome.

with regards.

sibaprasad

sibaprasad at 2007-7-1 19:29:55 > top of Java-index,Enterprise & Remote Computing,Enterprise Technologies...