764449 - icedove: return receipt requests policy should include enable/disable filters

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Philip Ashmore]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.5) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.5 Iceweasel/10.0.5
Build ID: 20120605070051

Steps to reproduce:

Look for a way to customize sending return receipts for particular email addresses in my address book or with a filter


Actual results:

It appears to be a global on/off option that can't be customized


Expected results:

It would have been nice if I could choose
[receipt] to request a return receipt on a per-address-book entry (or filter)
[no receipt] don't send a return receipt for a particular per-address-book entry (or filter)
[default] use the global setting

Comment 1

[Philip Ashmore]

I originally reported this with Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612312

Comment 2

[:aceman]

I think it is per account option and you also can set it when composing a message.

But if you want to attach it to a contact in the addressbook that an interesting enhancement.

Comment 3

[Philip Ashmore]

This problem/issue/feature-requirement first surfaced when I had request-return-receipt on while posting to debian bug reports.
Each report has a bug number, such as [e-mail]
Putting each bug in the address book seems, well, silly, if, as an alternative, we could specify this in a filter - for names ending with @bugs.debian.org, don't send a read receipt.

Just my 2 cents.

Comment 4

[Andre Klapper]

(In reply to :aceman from comment #2)
> if you want to attach it to a contact in the addressbook that an interesting enhancement.

Isn't that bug 575954?

And in the send dialog a dup of bug 486284?

Comment 5

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Philip ?

Comment 6

[Philip Ashmore]

It depends on how you look at it.

The core of the problem is the lack of a choice regarding sending read receipts, which this bug addresses.

#575954 is about adding a read-receipt option to contacts.
#486284 is about having a third option regarding read-receipts [ ]yes [ ]no [X]ask.

As the original title of this bug report doesn't accurately reflect its intent, I'm re-titling it from "icedove: return receipt requests policy should include a per-account option or in the send dialog" to its new title, "icedove: return receipt requests policy should include enable/disable filters".

It's a third use-case that neither of the above bugs addresses.

No, I didn't know about them when I submitted this bug report.