731112 - Return Receipt option (when composing mail) does not work

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Composition, defect)

Description

[Justin]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 SeaMonkey/2.7.2
Build ID: 20120216055339

Steps to reproduce:

Opened a window to a compose a new email message.  Selected "Return Receipt" from the "Options" menu.  Created an email and sent it.  Then opened that email message from the "Sent" folder and viewed the source (CTRL+U).  And also opened that email message to edit as new (CTRL+E).  And finally checked for new mail (at the recipient email service) to verify if a receipt was successful.



Actual results:

Three things:
1.  The email source did not have a return receipt header.
2.  When opening the sent email as a new email composition, the "Return Receipt" option was no longer checked (in the "Options" menu).
3.  The recipient email service did not inform the user a return receipt was requested.


Expected results:

1.  The email source (after being filed in the "Sent" folder) should have contained a return receipt header.
2.  When opening the sent email as a new composition, the "Return Receipt" option should still be checked.
3.  The recipient email service should have informed the user that the received email (composed by SeaMonkey Mail & News) is requesting a return receipt.

Comment 1

[Justin]

Set importance to "Major", as I can not find any workaround to use return receipts.

Comment 2

[Phoenix]

WFM
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Firefox/10.0.2 SeaMonkey/2.7.2
Both sended and received messages have Disposition-Notification-To: header with sender address, receiver's software correctly generate auto response, so the only issue here is non-honored Return Receipt setting if reediting message, but I'm not sure, that it is not intended behavior. Can you check, is this reproducible with latest Thunderbird Nightly from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-central/thunderbird-13.0a1.en-US.win32.zip ?

Comment 3

[eftc]

I am experiencing the exact same bug.

Comment 4

[Rainer Bielefeld]

I never saw the reported problems except that "Edit as New" looses the "return receipt" option as confirmed by Phoenix. I think that is a bug and I will open a separate bug report after some more research.
The other observed problems seem to be related to individual SeaMonkey installation, add-on or something else, won can know?

No response, so I close this one for now.

@Reporter: Please feel free to reopen this Bug if you still can reproduce the problem with a current SeaMonkey version and a current OS and if you can contribute a step by step instruction (containing every key press and every mouse click) how to reproduce the problem reliably and
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