[Bug 88988] Removing "Confirm Delivery" is a bad change

[David Herbert]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88988


David Herbert <david at webmast.co.uk> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from David Herbert <david webmast co uk>  2010-05-15 07:48:41 ---
I'd also like to see kmail support delivery status notifications. Thunderbird
supports them. Why is this bug still unconfirmed after 6 years? Perhaps the
title should be changed to "Please support delivery status notifications"?

There seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding these notifications, I think
partly because there two entirely different types but with similar names and
partly because every email client which supports them decides to call them
something different, so for example kmail calling them "confirm delivery" and
"confirm read", or thunderbird calling one of them "return receipt".

One of the clearer pages describing both notification mechanisms I found:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_receipt

My vote would be that kmail supports both and calls them by their correct
names, "Delivery Status Notification" and "Message Disposition Notification".

What's a little annoying for me is that the message disposition notifications
which kmail does supports I never use (I don't request them and I have kmail
set to allows ignore incoming ones) and the delivery status notifications which
kmail doesn't support I find very useful and regularly use in thunderbird
(along with imap idle!).

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