From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41642 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Return Receipts Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 18:42:14 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <86pu4r5cd4.fsf@jamestown.21stcentury.net> <86pu4q3ilk.fsf@jamestown.21stcentury.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177008 7287 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:10:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:10:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 8107 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2002 18:04:23 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 5 Jan 2002 18:04:23 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16MvAy-00057D-00; Sat, 05 Jan 2002 12:04:12 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 05 Jan 2002 12:04:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@[209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA15005 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 12:03:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 8080 invoked by alias); 5 Jan 2002 18:03:14 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 8075 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2002 18:03:13 -0000 Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org (195.204.10.148) by gnus.org with SMTP; 5 Jan 2002 18:03:13 -0000 Original-Received: from larsi by quimbies.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16Mv9P-0005yq-00 for ; Sat, 05 Jan 2002 19:02:35 +0100 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: 310's _Downtown & Brooklyn Only (2)_: "On the Lamb" Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: 4F]fnvUSN|U@&!fLrPa1VAaRD2o m`%f"{.}iE&[emAsaN4FH}8x9c\[Ql6q_K*}2I?6C1K|<}e[V.PRL4_h0H(T5#}!Z$$)_B*b`njNY*KL0[x(x-m>rF0`Zo?;.)'?wkG>LS5K)m5Uw/6j"J?O@?!+jJQ$< y.CK"/pwHj Cancel-Lock: sha1:8vLcJwl9uEb6ZGZSwrNaQkUpxzU= In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Fri, 04 Jan 2002 21:08:14 +0100") Posted-To: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 38 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41642 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41642 The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gnu.emacs.gnus as well. Simon Josefsson writes: > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > >> James McNaughton 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.) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen