Re: Why does my connector send read receipts?

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 09:55 +0100, Jan wrote:
> I have ximian 1.4.5 on Mandrake 9.1 and whichever connector needed to
> connect to MS Exchange. Every time I read an email that asks for read
> receipt, it gets sent - I know because they often don't contain a valid
> return address, when they contain SPAM.
> 
> Apart from the annoyment of this, this is also a serious security issue
> as well as a way for spammers to harvest valid email addresses. What
> leaves me totally confused, to say the least, is that nobody amongst the
> developers seems to be able to bother themselves with the issue.
> 
> I have talked to the people that administrate our Exchange server, and
> they know of no server option that can control this behaviour. I know of
> no option in Evolution that controls this. So, can somebody please
> either tell me:
> 
> 1. Where in Exchange server is there an option for this?
> 2. Where in Evolution is there an option?
> 
> - or if there is no such options, how does one get the developers to
> care?
> 
> /jan

People have asked for Evolution to support read receipt.  It doesn't
yet.  If they're being sent, I can only assume they're being sent by the
Exchange server, and I doubt they're being sent at Evolution's request.
I'm not sure where the option is to turn this off in Exchange.

-Mark Gordon

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