134049 - problem with return receipts on IMAP if you have custom headers

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P2)

Description

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

problem with return receipts on IMAP if you have custom headers

if you define a custom header, and use IMAP, return receipts don't work when 
you receive them.

it appear like we aren't getting the Content-Type / MDN header from the imap 
server in this scenario.

working on this now...

Comment 1

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

this only happens to you if you define a custom header (or headers).

by default, there aren't any.

my gut tells me this is relating to how we abuse ::OtherHeader

would be good to fix this for nsbeta1, but I'll leave that to putterman / ADT 
to decide before I start hacking on it.

Comment 2

[scottputterman]

Is this if you have any custom header or if the message that's received has that
custom header in it as well as the return receipt request?

Comment 3

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

this is if you have any custom headers.  the user can define those via the UI 
(from the filters / search UI).

you could also have them from migrating from 4.x (if you set up custom headers 
in 4.x)

from mailnews.js:

//default null headers
//example "X-Warn: XReply", list of hdrs separated by ": "
pref("mailnews.customHeaders", ""); 

Comment 4

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

giving to jeff for now.

Comment 5

[Jeff Tsai]

accepting...

Comment 6

[scottputterman]

I'd be interested in a fix for this one.  

Comment 7

[Jeff Tsai]

The fix for 138054 fixes this.

Comment 8

[Cavin Song]

Reassigning.

Comment 9

[Cavin Song]

I can't reproduce this bug using 20030205 build.

I defined two custom headers ("X-Test-Hdr" and "Notification") and two filter
rules in Message Filter dialog and then sent a msg with return receipt request
turned on. Received and read the msg and I was prompted for sending a return
receipt back to the sender. Seems like this is the right behavior. Maybe I'm
missing some step(s) and/or setup here.

Comment 10

[David :Bienvenu]

I think I fixed this - I'll look for MDN bugs that I've fixed - shouldn't be too
many :-)

Comment 11

[Cavin Song]

Thanks David. In that case we should just mark it FIXED.

Comment 12

[Cavin Song]

Marking WORKSFORME. Please reopen it if problem resurfaces.

Comment 13

[Ninoschka Baca]

Branch build 2003-06-01: WinXP
Verified Worksforme.

Comment 14

[Sebastian Schulze Struchtrup]

Return receipts don't work for me with IMAP (Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7
(X11/20040625) on FreeBSD), even without custom headers.
With Pop3, everything is fine.

Sending an email to myself with a Return-Receipt (Disposition-Notification-To:
Header is generated) nothing happens when displaying the message.
Sending the same message to a pop3 account, everything works as it should.

Imap server is courier-imapd

I'm not sure if this is the right bug, but I Think this is probably the same
problem.