Re: Use of message disposition notification

Julien ÉLIE <[email protected]> writes:

> I read in 3.5 for an injected agent:
>
>    It SHOULD reject any proto-article which contains a header field
>    deprecated for Netnews (see, for example, [RFC3798] (Hansen, T. and
>    G. Vaudreuil, "Message Disposition Notification," May 2004.)).
>
> How is it supposed to be used?  I read in RFC 3798 that it is used to
> "report the disposition of a message after it has been successfully
> delivered".  In our case, the message is rejected and not delivered.
>
> Is it really here that RFC 3798 is to be referenced?  (And not USEFOR or
> another RFC?)  If yes, could it be better explained?

It's an example of a header that's deprecated for Netnews, in this case
precisely because it doesn't make any sense in Netnews.  The RFC says
somewhere in it that it's deprecated or not allowed in Netnews (I forget
where).

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>