On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 16:25 +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:13:41 +0200, Riccardo Escher wrote:
> 
> > I was searching in evolution (2.2.1) for the possibility to set e-mail
> > options like return-receipt or priority, but I didn't find nothing.
> > Does somebody know how to set these options?
> 
> These are evil features, because:
>  * A high priority for you might be low priority or even spam for me
>  * Return receipts, as discussed many times before, are immoral

To associate return receipts with (lack of) morality is a classic
example of "it depends on who's morality you are talking about".

> Once upon a time the Evolution team was swearing that they will never
> include these features.  Well, as Andre pointed out, r-rcpt was
> implemented and I'm pretty sure that under the huge corporate pressure
> (morons migrating from the proprietary world and asking for this kind of
> crap) the "priority" will be implemented as well (soon).

Return Receipt, Priority & Message Read Receipt are very useful
when used judiciously, and I'm glad they are being implemented.

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