460621 - Return receipt confirmation should be info bar, not modal dialog

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 221615

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Minh Nguyễn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20081006 Shredder/3.0a3

When opening or previewing an e-mail that requests a return receipt, a modal dialog box appears, asking whether Thunderbird should sent the receipt. This dialog box can appear before the message body loads, so the user may not have determined whether the sender is trustworthy enough (i.e., not a spammer) to deserve a receipt.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the Options window, Advanced tab, and click Return Receipts.
2. Make sure "Allow return receipts for some messages" is selected and the suboptions are set to "Ask me".
3. Receive an e-mail that requests a return receipt. (In Thunderbird, there's an option under the Options menu to request one.)
Actual Results:  
A dialog box appears, asking: "The sender of this message has asked to be notified when you read this message. Do you wish to notify the sender?"

The message body has not loaded, unless (apparently) the message is marked as spam.

Expected Results:  
No dialog box should appear. Instead, a notification bar should appear, similar to the ones used when the message is detected as a scam or spam. Although this approach would make the receipt request much less noticeable, it would allow the user to make an informed decision.

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

Sounds reasonable and should be considered in the message reader redesign.
I could see return receipts on a similar security/privacy level as spam, thus having no problems putting a "Send Receipt" button into a similar notification bar. Also, getting rid of unnecessary modal dialogs is a goal as well.

> The message body has not loaded, ...

That's bug 221615, which would be resolved when the receipt handling is moved from the dialog box to the notification bar.

Confirming as enhancement request and setting respective dependencies.

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Actually, this *is* bug 221615. (And i don't really see a strong connection to the new msg reader.)

Comment 3

[rsx11m]

Err, right. My first impression of bug 221615 was that it's mostly dealing
with the modal dialog itself, but it clearly moves towards the info bar as an alternative solution. Sorry for the spam then...