[X4U] Mail confirmation

[John Masters]

On 09/04/2010 22:53, T.L. Miller wrote:
> On 4/9/10, at 8:49 PM, Paul Moortgat paul.moortgat at pandora.be said:
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>> Is it possible to get informed that the other received your mail?
>> Like an automatic reply when he/she open that mail?
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> They would have to have software that would do that. I think you usually
> (only?) find that on an intranet -- like within a company or institution.
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Are you thinking about a Return Receipt perhaps? This is a "FEATURE" 
introduced by Microsoft in Outlook and overused and abused by the vast 
majority of drones in large organisations who have nothing better to do 
than make life more difficult for the few of us who try to keep the 
wheels of commerce turning. It serves NO useful purpose and consumes 
bandwidth and, more importantly, time. Dealing many times per day with a 
large national organisation, I frequently have to acknowledge receipt of 
an email simply because the senders preferences are set to always ask. 
98% of the time this is a complete waste of time as I will often get a 
follow up email asking if I received the first one or a phone call 
requesting the information I sent in reply to the original email, along 
with a return receipt.

That said, if you want to use this, many modern email clients support 
it, including Thunderbird and its derivatives. Don't know about Mail App 
as I don't use it.

It is also a fairly simple matter to read the email without letting you 
know it has been read.

-- 
John