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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Bug#29823: delivery notifications as specified in RFC 1891
From:       Don Sanders <sanders () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2001-07-27 13:18:45
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Grrr, the KDE bug system is so broken it's disgusting.

Maybe I should add some logic in KMail to autodetect when 
someone is replying to a bug report and automatically 
compute a reasonable To: field.

Don.

On Friday 27 July 2001 15:14, Don Sanders wrote:
> On Thursday 26 July 2001 20:04, malte@kde.org wrote:
> > Package: kmail
> > Version: 1.2.9 (using KDE 2.2.0 beta1)
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Installed from:    compiled sources
> > Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.3 19991030
> > (prerelease) OS:                Linux (i686) release
> > 2.4.2
> > OS/Compiler notes:
> >
> > KMail's delivery and read notifications use
> > Return-Receipt-To and X-Chameleon-Return-To
> > headers...at least the latter I've never seen before
> > and wonder where that name comes from :) Anyway, those
> > receipts don't seem to work at all. Netscape ignores
> > those headers, Outlook Express ignores them and even
> > KMail itself ignores them (I'd expect a question if I
> > want the receipt to be sent if there is such a header,
> > but nothing happens)
>
> For security reasons delivery confirmations are turned
> off by default. They can be turned on in
> configure->security.
>
> > Anyway, I
> > have no idea how read notification should be
> > implemented to work with other MUAs, but delivery
> > notification isn't a matter of inserting an additional
> > header, it should be implemented according to RFC 1891
> > if using SMTP and the server supports the ESMTP DSN
> > extensions IMHO. Thanks, -Malte
>
> The idea of delivery notifications was probably a bad one
> for privacy reasons and I doubt it will ever be widely
> supported by popular mail clients.
>
> Don.
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