IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> MOD> A New View of Notification Requirements

Re: IPP> MOD> A New View of Notification Requirements

Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com)
Tue, 10 Feb 1998 18:03:00 PST

draft-ietf-receipt-mdn-08.txt (I think it's 08),
"An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition Notifications".

> This memo defines a MIME content-type [5] for message disposition
> notifications (MDNs). An MDN can be used to notify the sender of a
> message of any of several conditions that may occur after successful
> delivery, such as display of the message contents, printing of the
> message, deletion (without display) of the message, or the
> recipient's refusal to provide MDNs. The
> "message/disposition-notification" content-type defined herein is
> intended for use within the framework of the "multipart/report"
> content type defined in RFC 1892 [7].

A "print disposition notification" could be returned as a multipart/report
containing a message/disposition-notification
or possibly you could invent a new notification, e.g.,
message/print-notification.

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