Re: [evolution-patches] Patch for the receipt bounty (#127534)

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 09:48 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 06:33, ERDI Gergo wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > 
> > > I think that there should probably be a default per-account setting for
> > > whether or not the composer should default to requesting a receipt.
> > > other than that, I think the composer code looks ok so far.
> > 
> > From the bounty description (emphasis mine):
> > "Add an option to the composer for "Request a Read Receipt for this 
> > Message" (or something like that). *This would always default to being 
> > off*. Make the composer generate proper MDN request headers if the option 
> > is turned on."
>
> if the other settings are going to be per-account, then so should this.
>
> it's like 5 lines of code... seriously.

Really?  Its the sort of feature you only use sometimes on more important emails, you don't want to go broadcasting stuff like that on all your mails, even from specific accounts I would suggest.
> > Umm... but surely the best default behaviour is to ask the user so he can 
> > decide?
>
> no. dialog popups are annoying and most people will not want this
> feature, hence it should default to off.
>
> the people who want it will know to look for it.
I'm on jeff here :)

But these are all really ui issues I guess.
> > "For Internet Mail user agents, it is recommended that this field contain 
> > both the DNS name of the particular instance of the UA that generated the 
> > MDN and the name of the product.  For example,
> > 
> >       Reporting-UA:  rogers-mac.dcrt.nih.gov; Foomail 97.1"
> > 
> > so gethostname() should be close enough, this is not information used to 
> > somehow connect to the machine so it shouldn't cause any problmes if it's 
> > not an FQDN.
>
> DNS name is an FQDN. but whatever.
We only use gethostname for the messageid fqdn.  And so it should be, if it isn't it's just a badly configured system.

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