Spec file which describes the desired appearance and behavior or the read receipt stuff.

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+Specification for Read Receipts: 
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+Screenshots: The screenshots included in this directory are: 
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+1) Proposal.png : My proposal for the RR page of the settings dialog
+2) read_receipt_options.jpg : Outlook (Express)'s RR settings dialog
+3) security_options.jpg : Outlook (Express)'s Secure Receipts settings dialog
+4) notification-of-rr-request.jpg : The question dialog which appears if you have configured outlook to ask you before sending read receipts. 
+5) receipt.jpg: The receipt itself, as found in my inbox. 
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+1) Settings Dialog: 
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+a) Location: Should be added to the "Mail Preferences" section of the
+global settings dialog, in its own tab, entitled "Receipts".
+
+b) Help: Needs to be accompanied by a detailed help entry which
+explains what a read receipt is. I couldn't fit much of an explanation
+into the interface (not that the interface is a good place for this
+explanation, anyway.)
+
+c) Insensitive widgets: Unless the "Always send back a read receipt"
+option is selected, the checkbox beneath it ("Unless the message is
+sent to a mailing list, etc") should be insensitive.
+
+d) Known problems:The text as shown in my mockup could be improved. I
+would be more than happy to have Aaron (and anyone else who'd like to
+help) assist me in making the text more clear.
+
+
+2) Read Receipt Messages: 
+
+a) Appearance: Read Receipt messages should appear in your inbox with the subject line: "Read:" (or "Message Read:"); "Read:" is what Outlook does, I think expanding it to "Message Read:" is a bit more clear. 
+
+b) The text of this message should tell you:
+   i)    what time you sent the mail, 
+   ii)   what the subject of your email was 
+   iii)  what the email address of your recipient is
+   iv)   what time your message was read by its recipient
+
+c) When as user has selected to be asked before sending a read receipt, he should be presented with a question dialog (including "Yes, Send" and "No, Don't Send" buttons.) The dialog should inform the user that a read reciept has been requested by the sender of the mail in question, and ask if s/he want to send such a receipt. 
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+3) Secure Receipts: Outlook includes support for "secure receipts", and I am unsure of whether or not this is something we can support. My hunch is that secure receipts are S/MIME related, and hence not applicable to Evo at present. 
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+The secure receipt settings, in Outlook,are launched by pressing the "Secure Receipts..." button in the RR setting dialog. The secure_options.jpg screenshot shows these options. 
+
+Jeff? Michael? Dan? Anyone have an idea of what this secure receipt stuff is, and if we need to include it in our implementation?