1872513 - E-mail delivery status notification option is not working

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Composition, defect)

Description

[Einternet]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0

Steps to reproduce:

Open a new e-mail or answer an e-mail. Select delivery status notification / afleverstatusnotificatie in the options menu and send the e-mail.

Internetprovider KPN in The Netherlands.
POP3 system.
'Quoted printable' MIME code for 8 bit coded messages option is turned on. This is needed with KPN.

SeaMonkey 2.53.18
Useragent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0
Buildnaam: 20231128204555

Actual results:

There comes no delivery status notification / afleverstatusnotificatie message. This has been for several years.

Expected results:

A delivery status notification / afleverstatusnotificatie message.

Many years ago, it was working.

Comment 1

[Ian Neal]

Unless all the email servers / gateways between you and the recipient support the delivery confirmation flag, this functionality will not work. It is mainly designed for a corporate environment where the IT department have complete control over the email infrastructure.

Comment 2

[Rainer Bielefeld]

NOT reproducible with installation of en-US SeaMonkey 2.53.18 Mozilla/5.0 (NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18 Build 20231128204555 (normal user Profile and newly created User Profile), Default Classic Theme on German WIN10 64bit for Email-SMTP-server at all-inkl.com