Re: Mail Receipt Notification?

In article <tph-8CDAC6.14465830102008@localhost>,
Tom Harrington <tph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <jollyroger-85D912.15295430102008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <301020081345101696%dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Dave Balderstone <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <student-304BBE.15203230102008@xxxxxxxx>, Meerkat1
<student@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Some of my email correspondents have mentioned that they receive
confirmation when one of their emails has ben opened.

I am wondering if this is possible, or if the confirmation is just that
the email has been delivered to a queue somewhere?

Has the function intentionally been omitted from Mac mail?

Do a search on google groups for "return receipt". This dead horse has
been well and thoroughly flogged.

Short answer: The function has been intentionally removed from
virtually every email client that even attempts to do things properly.

This naturally excludes Outlook on Windows, since Microsoft rarely does
*anything* properly in that email client.

There are services available which use tricks to try and get around
this-- for example, in an HTML-formatted email, adding a transparent GIF
loaded from a unique URL on the server. When someone opens the message,
the image loads, and the service reports the message as having been
opened.

It's the same scheme that spammers use with HTML emails, and about as
obnoxious, as far as I'm concerned. All the more reason (as if there
wasn't reason enough already) to turn off loading of images for incoming
emails. Because anyone can do this, the system is still pretty
unreliable-- send me one of these, and you won't get a confirmation back
even if I read the message.

This is one of the many reasons I tend to shun HTML message and promote
plain text email to everyone I know.

--
Send responses to the relevant news group rather than to me, as
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM
filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting
messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google
Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts.

JR
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