checking when email has been read?

[baskins]

Anybody know of , or better, use, any good methods?

 

[JackMDS]

Checking where, on what, why?

 

[baskins]

Checking where, on what, why?

a million light years away, on a shape ship.. to find out the secrets of the universe..


Seriously..

if you use any methods.. so that when you send an email, you know that it has been read, then it'd be good if you can let me know!

if you have an example that can be used with any web mail, that's good.. or an example that works with any email client.. that's good too.

 

[Engineer]

I know that you can check a box under "Receipts" of Windows Live Mail to have a receipt sent to you when you when your sent e-mail is read. I guess it works with any POP account. Is that what you are referring to?

 

[JackMDS]

Email goes from your server to the server of the person that you send it to.

You have No access, and No control of the destination server.

you can send an email, and ask for some sort of confirmation.

However the recipient system has to configured to send some type of confirmation, then you might get some sort of notification that it was read.

Otherwise there nothing that you can do about it.

Because of the current sad situation with emails. it is very rare that some one would configure their system to configure it to confirm.



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[baskins]

I know that you can check a box under "Receipts" of Windows Live Mail to have a receipt sent to you when you when your sent e-mail is read. I guess it works with any POP account. Is that what you are referring to?

here is a screenshot of windows live mail / hotmail..

can you show me where the option is?

http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/8899/33885977.jpg

do you know any other details, like whether the dest user gets prompted.. or whether it works regardless of how the dest user checks their email?

 

[gsaldivar]

If you're savvy, you can embed an image in an HTML e-mail and you will know when the recipient has read the message when the image is loaded off the server. Of course, this has been abused by spammers searching for valid e-mail addresses, so most clients disable the loading of images by default.

There are also some secure email systems that send a link to the recipient, notifying them that they have a secure message waiting to be read. The recipient has to click the link in the message and read the actual message from a website. This allows the site to send you a confirmation that the message has been read.

Good luck!