Re: Suggest: Disposition-Notification-To patch

[Albrecht Dreß <albrecht dress arcormail de>]

> 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.

O.k., then I will try to hack this part too. I'm on holidays for some weeks
now, so it might take some weeks. BTW, is this list the right place
to submit any patches? Or should they go to an other place?

> 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! :-)

I know this problem... It may even violate the security philosphy of some
networks, so I think I will add a switch to configure so that it is possible
to disable the receipt acknowledgement completely. Some people always think
their administrator is paranoid (well, they might be right;-)) so they can
ignore any warnings. To be able to request this acknowledgement is less
critical, so it should not be covered by this option, though.

Albrecht.


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