Need a receipt for sent emails

[2@discussions.microsoft.com Sue 2]

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. Thank you.

[Steve Cochran]

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

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[mac]

This is not Leen, but check it :-)

[PA Bear]

<scratches head> Does Request Read Receipt work for Hotmail messages?
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[Steve Cochran]

I dunno. I said for OE.

steve

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[Steve Cochran]

I was testing you guys. <G>

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[Vanguard]

"PA Bear" <PABe...@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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<snip>

Should, yes, but never assume anything when it comes to Hotmail in OE. <w>
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[Steve Cochran]

No "real" company should rely on a Hotmail address period. Websites with
email capabilities are easily $5 a month, so its ridiculous for a company to
base its business on some "free" full of ads email provider, and any company
that did I would have serious problems dealing with.

steve

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[PA Bear]

Plus using a Hotmail account for other than personal purposes is in
violation of the EULA.
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[Vanguard]

"Steve Cochran" <scoc...@oehelp.com> wrote in message
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> No "real" company should rely on a Hotmail address period. Websites
> with email capabilities are easily $5 a month, so its ridiculous for a
> company to base its business on some "free" full of ads email
> provider, and any company that did I would have serious problems
> dealing with.

I don't see mention in the OP's message that they needed to use read
receipts based on company requirements. Sounded like they wanted to spy
on when the recipients got his message so he knew who read his valuable
gems. The OP complains that some of his e-mails aren't going to where
he thinks they should go, so the OP has a problem addressing his e-mails
and he wants innocents that got nailed with his bulk/spam mails to let
him know that they got it instead of his intended victims. Disabling
the read-receipt request is how users prevent spammers from validating
e-mail address, so the OP will need to ask his recipients within the
body of his mails to reply that they got his mails or that they were
wrongly delivered (but then the recipients are not likely to reply,
anyway, since they aren't interested in validating their e-mail address
to a spammer), or the sender should maintain his own bulk mailing list
when he gets opt-outs or no replies from his recipients that really want
to receive his mails (and delete everyone else from his mailing list).

[Steve Cochran]

I didn't know that.

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<QP>
4. NO COMMERCIAL, UNLAWFUL OR HARMFUL USE OF THE MSN WEB SITES

The MSN Web Sites are only for your personal use. You will not use the MSN
Web Sites for commercial purposes...
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Source: http://privacy.msn.com/tou
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Steve Cochran wrote:
> I didn't know that.
>

[Steve Cochran]

Yeah, but it doesn't say you can't use your Hotmail address as a business
address there.

steve

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