Re: Suggest: Disposition-Notification-To patch

[Anthony Frost <balsa vulch org>]

In message <20001219224349.E13650@regulus.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
          Albrecht Dreß <albrecht.dress@arcormail.de> wrote:

 > However, one feature I miss from Netscape is the option to include a
 > "Disposition-Notification-To" header to get some kind of "return
 > receipt". I worte a quick hack against ver. 1.0.1 (attached below) which
 > adds this feature. What do you think of it?
 > 
 > Note that this patch does only take care of *sending* this header line
 > I read RFC1894, but I did not find out if we have to send any reply if
 > we *receive* a message with this header line, of if sendmail does this

As I remember from investigating this a while ago, responding to any
kind of return receipt request is entirely up to the recipient and is
done by the mail client. The MTA should never do anything in response to
those headers. Personally I always make sure that any receipt
acknowledgement a mail client I use may do is disabled.

If you carry on with this, you need to make Balsa generate the reply but
have it configurable with "never send/ask before sending/always send"
settings. And please make "never send" the default! :-)

          Anthony

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