Hello Ian, Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 10:33:24 PM, you wrote:
> G'day Tim, ->> On Sunday, September 28, 2008, 10:00:38 AM, you (Tim Hamm) wrote: TH>> Hello TBUDL, TH>> My confirm receipt and reading confirmation is useless. It has TH>> never worked. Are there any fixes for this. My Outlook works TH>> like a champ but not so with TB. > I have been (trying) to follow this thread, but nothing seems to be > clear. > From my point of view, I have sent over a dozen e-mails since this was > reported where I have requested a reading receipt and I have received > a reading receipt from the recipients. > During this time I have also received around 6 messages where the > sender has requested a reading receipt. I have my system prompt me, > and I have it set to send one immediately rather than queue them in > the Outbox. All reading receipts that I have allowed have gone through > fine. Nothing has been left in the Outbox. > So maybe this needs to be clarified. > What is the situation that prompted this thread? > Is The Bat! requesting a reading receipt and one is not being > received? If this is the case, then it has nothing to do with The Bat! > and everything to do with the receiving system or recipient. They > receiving system may be blocking such requests (I have a relative > working for the Defence Department and the request for a reading > receipt is stripped off incoming messages), or the recipient might > have their system set to ignore such requests or is not sending them > on an individual basis. In either case there is nothing that The Bat! > can do. > Is The Bat! not sending reading receipts? If this is the case then the > settings to respond to such a request have to be set correctly. The > Bat! has to be set to automatically send a receipt without asking, or > it has to be set to ask and then it must be allowed on an individual > basis. > Is The Bat! queuing them in the the Outbox? If this is the case then > reading receipts need to be set to send them immediately. > Is there something else that is going wrong? I can appreciate what you are saying, from what I know on my end, these features have never worked as long as I have had TB. I would think by now of the thousands of emails I have sent, at least one recipient's email client should be able to send read receipts. -- Best regards, Tim Hamm mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.0.24.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
