Wayne Brissette said like: >Unless you are on a proprietary email >system, all return receipt does in every internet email client I've seen >is tell you when the server collected the message from you. NOT when the >recipient pulled it off his server or read it. In fact, it's still >possible that the recipient never gets it. So, by having a return receipt >on internet mail is totally worthless. Now, if you are on a proprietary >mail system (which includes MS mail servers) this is not the case and it >does mean something, but since you're obviously on a Mac this isn't the >case either.
This doesn't seem right. If the *client* collects the message and by automatization prepares and sends a receipt message back, that does show that the original sent message is in the mailbox of the adressee, not that it have been collected by the mailserver. The read status have not been sent of course, so the script in the client could be improved by sending only when the message have been opened. Then actual read status of the contents will have to be assumed of course.
