On Apr 6, 2004, at 11:04 AM, Anne Judge wrote:
Eudora & Netscape/Mozilla at least - don't know about others - allow for receipt confirmations - but require an email client at the far end that also supports it, plus the user at the far end has to have his/her mailer set so it at least gives the option of acknowledging receipt. (I remember the prefs of at least one of those clients gives the options "do not respond," "ask before responding," or "always respond" to return receipt requests - always respond is bad because it could confirm your address to spammers, but if they have it set to do not respond you won't get the receipt even if the message is received.)
There is a way to know if your mail reached its destination, not if someone opened it. It can't be 100% guaranteed that if you miss-address an eMail it will come back to you, sometimes the next day but usually almost right away, returned by the daemon mailer as an error. I would be addressed to you something like this:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: April 6, 2004 11:49:31 AM EDT
Subject: Undeliverable mail: Re: Mail confirmation.It won't come back if miss addressed and the address is some-ones actual address, though they might get in touch with you about it. If your email can't be delivered, it will come back. If it doesn't return then someone got it. It's their privilege and choice to open it or toss it unread, and that's what's great about email.
dan_A
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