Email notification
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Guys, is there a way, when we could know when the person I sent email, read/open the email? I believe someone told me that it can, long time ago.
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If you're using Outlook, you can turn this on when composing a message using View -> Options -> "Request a read receipt for this message". You can enable it permanently in the options somewhere, but I can't remember exactly where.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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If you're using Outlook, you can turn this on when composing a message using View -> Options -> "Request a read receipt for this message". You can enable it permanently in the options somewhere, but I can't remember exactly where.
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
I always ignore those request those. They'll know I read it when I respond :) ===================
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I always ignore those request those. They'll know I read it when I respond :) ===================
Matthew R. Miller www.bytemycode.com www.codeandcoffee.comMatthew R. Miller wrote:
I always ignore those request those.
So do I usually :)
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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Guys, is there a way, when we could know when the person I sent email, read/open the email? I believe someone told me that it can, long time ago.
Work hard, Work effectively.
Don't you by any chance mean that trick with images, what spammers are using? :) Never forget: "Stay kul and happy" (I.A.)
David's thoughts / dnhsoftware.org / MyHTMLTidy -
I always ignore those request those. They'll know I read it when I respond :) ===================
Matthew R. Miller www.bytemycode.com www.codeandcoffee.comYes, when Outlook prompts me "A read receipt was requested, do you want to send it?" my answer is always NO and DON'T PROMPT AGAIN. :) -- LuisR
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix - Chihuahua, Mexico Not much here: My CP Blog!
The amount of sleep the average person needs is five more minutes. -- Vikram A Punathambekar, Aug. 11, 2005
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Guys, is there a way, when we could know when the person I sent email, read/open the email? I believe someone told me that it can, long time ago.
Work hard, Work effectively.
There are pay services that do this but they just use the spammer trick. They embed their image in your email and voila. If it's that important a phone call is probably best.
A Plain English signature. Code-frog System Architects, Inc.
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Yes, when Outlook prompts me "A read receipt was requested, do you want to send it?" my answer is always NO and DON'T PROMPT AGAIN. :) -- LuisR
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix - Chihuahua, Mexico Not much here: My CP Blog!
The amount of sleep the average person needs is five more minutes. -- Vikram A Punathambekar, Aug. 11, 2005
Not me - I'm scared that 'don't prompt me' means that from now on, it will just send it. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
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Not me - I'm scared that 'don't prompt me' means that from now on, it will just send it. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
No it won't. In Outlook 2003, go to Tools Options -> Preferences tab -> E-mail options -> Tracking Options, and at the bottom you can choose how you want to respond to read requests. Select "Never send a response" and you're done. -- LuisR
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix - Chihuahua, Mexico Not much here: My CP Blog!
The amount of sleep the average person needs is five more minutes. -- Vikram A Punathambekar, Aug. 11, 2005
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No it won't. In Outlook 2003, go to Tools Options -> Preferences tab -> E-mail options -> Tracking Options, and at the bottom you can choose how you want to respond to read requests. Select "Never send a response" and you're done. -- LuisR
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix - Chihuahua, Mexico Not much here: My CP Blog!
The amount of sleep the average person needs is five more minutes. -- Vikram A Punathambekar, Aug. 11, 2005
Beautiful. I am absolutely going to go do that now. That stupid message box is irritating. I have no desire to let people know when I've read their mail.
They dress you up in white satin, And give you your very own pair of wings In August and Everything After
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There are pay services that do this but they just use the spammer trick. They embed their image in your email and voila. If it's that important a phone call is probably best.
A Plain English signature. Code-frog System Architects, Inc.
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Just curious why u call it a spammer trick. May be the spammers use it, but whats really against doing it.
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May be the spammers use it
Because they made it popular. And because maybe 90% of that trick's use is in spam mail. And because it's blocked by default by e-mail clients like Outlook. -- LuisR
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix - Chihuahua, Mexico Not much here: My CP Blog!
The amount of sleep the average person needs is five more minutes. -- Vikram A Punathambekar, Aug. 11, 2005
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Just curious why u call it a spammer trick. May be the spammers use it, but whats really against doing it.
It's monitoring your actions on your computer and it's reporting them to one or more collectors without your permission. How would you like it if someone attached something to your home/apartment that told total strangers when you came and left. I refer to it as a spammer trick as it uses a method of notification that did not involve getting/obtaining my permission or allowing me anyway to unsubscribe from their services. I should be able to request that their services not work for my email address at all and I cannot. Nobody has any right to know when I have read their message without my permission. All of the above was stated conversationally. What do you think? Do my reasons validate my {tagging} it as a spammer method? I'm curious to know what you think... - Rex
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Don't you by any chance mean that trick with images, what spammers are using? :) Never forget: "Stay kul and happy" (I.A.)
David's thoughts / dnhsoftware.org / MyHTMLTidy -
Would you mind telling me about that David, I haven't know about that.
Work hard, Work effectively.
well, there is a reason why for example outlook doesn't load images by default. If you set url of image to dynamic page, like src="http:\\mysite.com\index.aspx" and that dynamic page will know that someone viewed that email (page_load). Ah, and of course it should return image as expected. Don't try that at home, kids :~ Never forget: "Stay kul and happy" (I.A.)
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