Can I confirm that a message I sent has been opened?

[Miho]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) I guess the subject line says it all.

Thanks.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I guess the subject line says it all.

Not reliably.
In addition, read-receipts are not naturally supported in Entourage and
you need to use AppleScripts to play with it.
As I was saying though, there is nothing requiring the recepient e-mail
software to support the function, and even when it is supported, it can
be bypassed entirely.

Corentin

 

[Barry_Wainwright_[MVP]]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) I guess the
subject line says it all.

Thanks.

a return receipt (Dispotion Notification Request - DNR) can be
_requested_ by adding a header line in the advanced account options.
However, very few email clients honour them, and even where the client
can, they are often set up to ignore them, so the system is very
unreliable, except within a tightly controlled Microsoft Exchange
environment.

If you want to try it, see details of how to do it here:
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/return_receipt.html#rr1

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