Allow users to see their own email bounces and rejections

[pauamma]

Title:
Allow users to see their own email bounces and rejections

Area:
email

Summary:
Allow users to see rejected and bounced emails to their own email address

Description:
Currently, only people with the appropriate permission can check whether email Dreamwidth sends to users is bouncing or rejected by the destination ISP or email service. Other users don't have access to that feature, not even for their own email address. The source code for the page, however, indicates that the feature has been implemented but disabled except for people with that permission.

If that restriction was removed with the code as it currently stands, there would be other restrictions applicable for users without that permission:
- Users who didn't validate their email address wouldn't be able to access that page.
- Some account levels may not have access to that feature. (I'm not sure which if any, and the current setting is moot since access is globally disabled anyway, but which should have it is still relevant to the discussion.)
- Community maintainers can't check their communities for rejected/bounced email, if those communities have a different email address.

Poll #4421 Allow users to see their own email bounces and rejections

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 36

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Should be implemented as-is.
26 (72.2%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
10 (27.8%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)