I'm not sure I follow you Susan.

I'm not an SMTP expert by any means, but from what I understand......

A "read receipt" is generated by the reciever's client software
but ONLY IF the user has configured the software to always
respond - or - they manually respond on an individual basis.

A "delivery receipt" is generated automatically by the
ISP's mailer daemon (or server - to use your terminology).

Jim Meagher

----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Sutherland" <[log in to unmask]>


> Yes, they are far from foolproof, and I agree that a delivery receipt may
be
> the best you can hope for. Internet mail "read receipts" depend on both
the
> sender's and receiver's email servers even more than their email
> clients.....both the sender's and receiver's servers need to support this
> feature (and have it turned on) for it to work. You'd need to enquire at
> both ends. So unless your service providers both supports this, you're out
> of luck.
>
> Susan Sutherland
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Meagher <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> > Read reciepts are not a foolproof process.
> >
> > Even if a mail program REQUESTS a read receipt,
> > the recipient has the option of sending the acknowledgement -- or not.
> >
> > I suggest you look for an email program that works with a
> > DELIVERY RECEIPT instead.  It may not prove that the message was
> > read, but you WILL know without a doubt that the message made it to his
> > inbox.

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