Re: Mail Receipt Notification?

In article <12w7f9uwbliis.x2kfizsuubfg$.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>,
salgud <spamboy6547@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:46:58 -0600, Tom Harrington 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.

Which would eliminate the purpose of a good portion of my emails - the pix
that people send me! Don't think I'm the least bit interested in
eliminating getting those pix.

The option only applies to remote images. If the image is sent as an
attachment, it's displayed normally.

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Arlington, MA
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