Re: Return Receipts

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

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> DSN opens up to all kind of privacy threats, so it shouldn't be
> enabled by default.  OTOH I think it might be useful in some
> situations (especially if you are in a Windows environment where
> someone expects you to return a receipt).

I've given RFC2298 a quick glance, and I thought about it a few
seconds more, and I just don't feel that this is something that users
will want to use.  I certainly wouldn't.  So I'm not going to
implement this, but if you (or someone else :-) wants to implement
this, it'd be fine by me.

(Just to make sure you hadn't already implemented this, I grepped
through the sources for "notification", and I see there's a function
for inserting a Disposition-Notification-To header, but not much
more.  When fetching mail, Gnus should probably be parsing these
receipts, and marking, er, archived messages as having received
notification that they have been received?  Or something?)

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