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

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 09:55, Not Zed wrote:
> 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.

I guess you're right. n/m

> > > 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.

we start with gethostname() and then pass it off to camel's
gethostbyname() equiv in order to get the FQDN (or at least *try*)

Jeff