dan neely wrote:
Actually you can get a bit closer than that if you're sending html email, the recipient's client displays images, and you have a webserver. Embed a link to an image on your webserver with a unique identifier in the URL, if the image is ever accessed the email was displayed.
That is an alternative, but I'm not certain that it is any closer. The recipient may choose not to display images in mails, just as s/he can choose not to send any receipt.
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