Get back a sign when message is read

[R.J.G.Siemelink]

Hallo,
When I send a massage to a person, how can I then see when he has read it?

 

[Barry Wainwright]

You can insert the 'return receipt' header into the account settings:

Open the account for editing (Tools>Accounts; then select the account &
click on Edit)

Under the 'Options' tab, second item down is 'Additional Headers'. In the
'Header' column enter "Disposition-Notification-To" (without the quotes);
and in the 'value' column enter your email address.

DNRs will now be sent out with every message from this account, but not all
mail clients & mail servers support these protocols, so results from the
world at large may be variable.

If you have only an occasional need to do this on a message by message
basis,
duplicate your account and add the header to the new account only. Make sure
that this account is NOT included in any mail checking schedules, but that
mail from this account IS sent with every send. Now, to include the
return-receipt, simply change the account of a message to this ŒRR¹ account
with the pop-up menu that appears next to the 'from' header in a draft
message window when you have more than one account defined.



--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Seen the Entourage FAQ pages? - Check them out:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>






From: Vsevolod Udovenko <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 09:23:12 -0400
Subject: Re: Get back a sign when message is read

Hallo,
When I send a massage to a person, how can I then see when he has read it?

Return receipt. Looks like it is not a feature of Entourage 2001.

Vsevolod.

 

[Diane Ross]

When I send a massage to a person, how can I then see when he has read it?

Even using Return Receipt does not ensure you it was read. It only tells you
it has been downloaded.

Also some clients can and will carry out the request, others will prompt the
user and they can choose not to send it back, and still other clients like
Entourage ignore the request completely, so it should not be assumed that no
receipt means a recipient didn¹t receive the message.