Re: Email Read Acknowledgement
 

"Dan Whitaker" <danwhitaker@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:23445-3EFC0500-269@storefull-2176.public.lawson.webtv.net...
> I know that several email systems have a provision for being notified
> when the recipient(s) open/read email that you send to them. Some email
> systems don't have that fearure. Is there any convenient way to do that
> with some HTML funcrtion or a combination of functions such as perhaps
> "MAILTO:" and a JavaScript to automatically respond without the
> recipient doing anything? Like maybe a JavaScript that would do the
> MAILTO: without any recipeint intervention?

I am also looking for a function which as well as replying will send an
attachment called 'ILOVEYOU' and it would be even more convenient if it sent
this attachment to all the addresses in my Outlook addy book.

Thomas

Re: Email Read Acknowledgement
 

Peter & Thomas, Thanks for y9ur replies. I do blieve though, that the
email agent i was using back in 1998 was MSN mail which was, I believe,
part of Microsof Office and it definitely did have a function whereby
you could specify that you wanted to beinformend when a recipient opened
mail you had snt to them qand it worked flawlessly. It was a good
feature if you wanted to know that the people you sent a critical memo
to had gotten the message. For instance, if you announced a meeting in
conference room A at 10:00 Thursday you would like to know that all the
people who should be there had at least gotten the announcement.

And hey, spmmers will be spammers and will figure out a way to get to
you one way or another. I don;t think we should consider unhinging all
of the good fearures of the internet that spammers might be able to take
advantage of. If we did that, the best way would be to just shut the
internet down. No more spam, eh? :-)

Anyway, thanks guys.
Dan

Re: Email Read Acknowledgement
 

In article <23752-3EFD6460-6@storefull-2171.public.lawson.webtv.net>,
danwhitaker@webtv.net says...
> Peter & Thomas, Thanks for y9ur replies. I do blieve though, that the
> email agent i was using back in 1998 was MSN mail which was, I believe,
> part of Microsof Office and it definitely did have a function whereby
> you could specify that you wanted to beinformend when a recipient opened
> mail you had snt to them qand it worked flawlessly. It was a good
....
It didn't work flawlessly. Even for people using MS products - you can
send me an email if you like. I'll pick it up in Outlook, but you won't
get a read receipt.

If you're using 'mailto:' then there's a good chance the email won't be
sent at all (hotmail, anyone?).

If you set a header of:

'Disposition-Notification-To: "Dan" <danwhitaker@webtv.net>'

Then I suppose there's at least a chance that you'll get a recipt when
it reaches their inbox.

BTW: http://www.xs4all.nl/%7ewijnands/nnq/nquote.html