Anyone know what you type on the "To" line on an email to get confirmation that it's been opened?

[Wallydraigle]

^^^^?

 

[WombatWoman]

What mail program do you use?

 

[Wallydraigle]

Outlook Express, or Eudora, whichever will do this.

 

[Wallydraigle]

In Outlook Express I can go to Tools and make it ask the person if it's okay to send a recipt, but I thought there was something you add to the "To" line to get around that, because the person can just say no and then deny I sent something.

 

[WombatWoman]

Answer is here.

 

[Wallydraigle]

Thank you very much!

 

[WombatWoman]

I believe the "return receipt" is a function of the mail server which receives the mail, so I doubt that there is any foolproof way to determine whether mail was received. For anything truly important, I would use old-fashioned snailmail and request a signature.

 

[amnesiac]

I hate it when people send me read receipts. Next time someone I know does that I'm driving over to their house and drowning them in their toilet.

 

[bacillus]

Originally posted by: amnesiac 2.0
I hate it when people send me read receipts. Next time someone I know does that I'm driving over to their house and drowning them in their toilet.

:Q :Q

 

[Praetor]

Originally posted by: WombatWoman
I believe the "return receipt" is a function of the mail server which receives the mail, so I doubt that there is any foolproof way to determine whether mail was received. For anything truly important, I would use old-fashioned snailmail and request a signature.

That is so 20th century.