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Outlook: Alternative to Read Receipt?

  • 07-04-2011 1:43pm
    #1
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Just wondering if there's any alternatives to the read receipts in Outlook?

    Can anything be done machine\server side to ensure that mails are being read without being over the persons shoulder?

    Thanks a mil.


Comments

  • #2
    FSL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭FSL


    There shouldn't be anything that does not require the recipient's express permission.


  • #3
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    FSL wrote: »
    There shouldn't be anything that does not require the recipient's express permission.

    I think you can take your tin foil hat off now. And grab the right end of the stick.

    I don't want to interfere with users' privacy\rights. But lo and behold if you've company mail than it's the companies' right to go through it! (As long as they have grounds to). But that's not what I'm looking for at all!

    So, let me spell out my request further (so I'm not misinterpreted like the last poster).

    All I require is a notification that if x sends a mail to y, then x will definitely know that it's been read. Other than a read receipt.........Or maybe a read receipt with just the one Confirm option?

    Cheers.


  • #4
    FSL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭FSL


    I don't have a tin foil hat. If you are looking for something which will tell you whether an internal email has been 'read' (opened for reading) then it would need to be a feature of your internal mail distribution system.

    If you are talking about mail received from outside then I would reiterate it would have to be only with the express permission of the recipient. Anything less would be a spammers dream.


  • #5
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,254 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    You could send HTML mail that references a small image on a web server that you have access to logs. The image need not be displayed. The image URL can include a unique code to link it to the specific email.


  • #6
    ressem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,426 ✭✭✭ressem


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    You could send HTML mail that references a small image on a web server that you have access to logs. The image need not be displayed. The image URL can include a unique code to link it to the specific email.

    They're called web bugs.
    If the sender is in the recipients contact list they'll often be allowed, but blocked otherwise.


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