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May 23rd 08, 03:21 AM
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read email notification
Thanks for this and was very helpful.
"VanguardLH" wrote: "Nikki Peterson" wrote in : "Helena" wrote ... When I send an email I want an recipeint notification telling me that the email is read. I have followed Outlook instructions but I can't seem to get it to work. Can anyone help? Thank you. Read Receipts are at the discretion of the receiver. This means that If you send me an email and request a read receipt, I have my email client set up to let me know that you are requesting a read receipt. I then have the choice to either send you one, or not. The best you can really do is also request a "Delivery Reciept". This will trip the receiving mail system to send you an acknowledgement that your email has been accepted or denied. If it is accepted, you will know that the email has reached your requested mailbox destination and was delivered to the recipient. Actually all a delivery receipt says is that the receiving mail host got your e-mail. It does NOT indicate that the e-mail got delivered to anyone's mailbox. For example, the mail host may accept the e-mail and even know it was deliverable (because the recipient's mailbox exists) but then slams into a blacklist that auto-deletes the message so it never arrives in the recipient's mailbox. A delivery receipt says nothing except that the receiving mail host got it. Most mail servers never bother to send back delivery receipts. Why? Because they already send back negative feedback in the form of NDRs (non-delivery reports). Not getting an NDR means the receiving mail host accepted your message. They see no need to send back positive feedback when the lack of negative feedback already provides that information. Don't expect many mail hosts to bother sending you anything back for a delivery receipt request. A delivery receipt says absolutely nothing about whether an e-mail ever reached the recipient's mailbox. Few mail hosts bother to send back a delivery receipt. 
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