Re: Return Receipts

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gnu.emacs.gnus as well.

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> James McNaughton <jtm63@enteract.com> writes:
>>
>>> According to http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/dsn.html the delivery
>>> status notification is part of the MTA but receipt notification
>>> (e.g. I fetched the message from my mailbox) is the responsibility of
>>> the MUA [Ref. RFC2298 linked on the same sendmail page]. The web page
>>> lists some MUAs which are supposed to do it.
>>
>> "Return-Receipt-To" was (the last time this was discussed)
>> deprecated, so Gnus doesn't support if.  If it has been undeprecated
>> now, then we should take another look at it.
>
> RRT seems to be "nonstandard, but widely used" (RFC 1894), MDN (RFC
> 2298) seems to be to blessed version of it.  DSN (RFC 2852) is a
> SMTP-only thing.  Exmh and Netscape 4.5 supports MDN according to the
> webpage.
>
> Hm.  If MDN is implemented, it would be nice if the UI allowed the
> user to set his preference once and for all -- much like a popup
> buffer with explanatory text that asks "Do you want to return a
> receipt?  Yes/No/Always/Never" that hooks into customize.  Does anyone
> want to implement it?  I think it sounds fun, so I could do it.  DSN
> support could be fun as well.

I think this sounds like a good idea.  I've Cc'd this to the ding
mailing list, so we can see whether anybody there has any comments.
(Follow up to the mailing list only, please.)

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