Re: Disposition-Notification-To acks

["Bjørn Mork" <bmork@dod.no>]

Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk> writes:
> jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
>
>> Gentlemen, the Taiwan Power Company has turned off my e-bill account
>> because gnus doesn't acknowledge the Disposition-Notification-To
>> headers they send.
>
> Is it gnus' job to respond to them? I believe that it is the
> responsibility of the MTA making the local delivery (ie the one from
> which gnus fetches mail) to respond to Disposition-Notification-To
> headers. 

Nope, it's a MUA thing.  Quote from RFC3798:

<quote>
2.1.  The Disposition-Notification-To Header

   A request for the receiving user agent to issue message disposition
   notifications is made by placing a Disposition-Notification-To header
   into the message.
</quote>

However, the bug in this case is cleary on the Taiwan Power Company
side, since the quoted section continues

<quote>
   The presence of a Disposition-Notification-To header in a message is
   merely a request for an MDN.  The recipients' user agents are always
   free to silently ignore such a request.
</quote>

So Gnus is behaving correct by default.



Bjørn
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