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From: "Vanguard" <vanguard.n...@yahooNIX.com>

Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 15:08:39 -0500

Local: Fri, May 26 2006 4:08 pm

Subject: Re: Need a receipt for sent emails

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"PA Bear" <PABear...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> <scratches head> Does Request Read Receipt work for Hotmail messages?

> Steve Cochran wrote:
>> For sending from OE, go to Tools | Options | Receipts and check the
>> box
>> there to request a receipt for all sent messages. However, users
>> have the
>> option not to send the receipt.

>> steve

>> "Sue 2" wrote ...
>> > Hi, I am pretty useless with hotmail but I do need to know how to
>> > flag
>> > an email before I send it so that the receipient automatically
>> > sends me
>> > confirmation that they have received it!! Some of my emails do not
>> > seem
>> > to
>> > be ending up where they should so a receipt would be very useful.

An e-mail client, whether Outlook, Outlook Express, or other, will add
the following header to the e-mail when requesting a read receipt (see
RFC 2298):

Disposition-Notification-To: <requestoremailaddress>

While the webmail interface for Hotmail doesn't have the read-receipt
feature to add the header, Outlook [Express] does have that ability and
should add the header to the e-mail sent through the Hotmail service.

The recipient's e-mail program may or may not recognize the header
(i.e., it may or may not support responding to the read receipt requests
via header). If they do recognize the header, the user still has the
option of how to configure their e-mail program in handling those
requests (block/ignore, send it w/o prompt, or send it but prompt before
sending).

Unless a company demands read-receipts be enabled per company policy, it
is highly unlikely that anyone will send a read receipt when requested.
I believe the default is to prompt before sending, and most users would
simply select not to send, which would prompt them to reconfigure their
e-mail client to simply ignore any further such read receipt requests
(so they aren't bothered with the prompt).

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