Return receipts

[Laurent Montel]

On lundi 11 avril 2022 14:07:13 CEST Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Montag, 11. April 2022 13:23:52 CEST Ian Douglas wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Kmail etc updated over the weekend.
> > 
> > Now when I try to send a mail with return-receipt flags, I get:
> > 
> > Failed to transport message. Server error: <webmaster at XXXX.com>
> > NOTIFY=success,failure: malformed address: NOTIFY=success,failure may not
> > follow <webmaster at XXXX.com>
> > 
> > Is this me or my ISP's mail server?
> > 
> > Kmail Version 5.19.3 (21.12.3)
> 
> Looks like a bug (regression) in KMail introduced with the fix for
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442884.
> 
> I think the fix doesn't check whether the server actually supports the
> "Delivery Status Notification" SMTP service extension.
> 
> One could also argue that a decent mail server should support DSN by now
> (the standard was published in 2003). Still, KMail should always check what
> the server it talks to supports.

Hi,
I will investigate it tomorrow.
Indeed perhaps some server doesn’t support it 20 years after standard was 
published.

Regards.

> 
> Regards,
> Ingo


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