Re: DSN

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Joseph Barillari <jbarilla@princeton.edu> writes:

> I was surprised that Gnus didn't support Delivery Status
> Notification. I've patched OGnus 0.05 message.el to handle it; the
> patch is attached.

Thanks.

It looks specific to sendmail.  Maybe renaming the variables to
`message-sendmail-use-dsn-*'?  Alternatively, implementing it for
non-sendmail methods as well (smtpmail, qmail, ...), of course.

> Given that DSN support requires only a few lines of code, was there a
> philosophical reason for its exclusion?

I think it has been discussed a few times here before (see the
archives).  If it is disabled by default, I don't see any harm in
supporting it.

Would it be useful to have toolbar buttons and message mode key
bindings for requesting DSN on a message?  I'm not sure you'd want to
use DSN on all messages.

Do you want to write documentation for it as well (message.texi)?
Have you signed FSF papers?