[Fwd: Re: [Evolution] read receipt function in evo]

[Tony Earnshaw]

James D. Ivey wrote:

> Yea, and we can also do without e-mail altogether and just use the 
> telephone.  That's not a legitimate answer to the posted question.
> 
> And, there's a very real and legitimate reason to ask for a return 
> receipt.  It's not an invasion of privacy.
[...]

> Unless Ximian implements some features that aren't important to Ximian 
> but are important to its users, evo will be relegated to "toy" status.  
> I'm currently struggling to remain with my current distro of SuSE+Ximian 
> in my business, but the lack of meaningful support in both components is 
> forcing my hand to look around for another solution.

For me Evo - I'm still on 1.4 - has oodles of reasons for making me 
stick to it like glue. They're to many to roll out, but a couple would 
be the LDAP implementation, the spelling implementation, the 
comprehensive range of mail authorization possibilities, native language 
(for me Norwegian Bokmål), the range of integration ... reply receipts 
is *not* one of them - they make me burn up when I get them in 
Thunderbird (in which I'm writing this). My clients love it - as a prof 
mailadmin I have to make sure that a range of MUAs are available and 
most clients choose for Evo, if they're offered it.

If the only difference to Evo being a toy and not a toy is reply 
receipts, then it's a pretty juvenile toy ;)

--Tonni

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We make out of the quarrel with others rhetoric
but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

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