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.
>
> In any case, I doubt that you will find anything that works within
> your AOL account...... errrr, okay, now I'm confused. You said
> you use AOL but I jsut noticed that your email address is Juno..........?

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "the cottens" <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
> > Does anyone know of an email program that lets you know when (date and
> > time) the recipient opens an email you have sent them?
> >
> > My son (who's away at college) selectively says he never got certain
> > emails that I send him, or doesn't open them "in time."
> >
> > We have AOL, but he doesn't, so that program won't work.  He is using
> > Juno.

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