I know that you can tell if email has been read when sending AOL to AOl by clicking on status of sent email or clicking on return reciept proir to sending the email. what about AOL to Yahoo...or AOL to whatever or Yahoo to Yahoo...is ther a way to know if mail has been read in either of those cases, before you get a reply...if any.
I tried to do a search useing PM's but came up empty...
1) scenerio: a Provider comes into town and posts a "I'm here or I'll be there" message and it reads like someone a hobbyist would be interested in seeing.
Can a VP member reasonably assume that the provider can accept PM's?...If not...How does a hobbyist know?
2) scenario: The PM is sent....How does oneknow if it has been read?...Does deleting it mean its removed even from that other person's mail box? I have a tendency to recheck mail that I sent for spelling/grammar...Does that constitute as mail being read?
1. There is no way to know. The only way to know for sure is if the receiver decides to reply back to you. It's better to use non-TER email - that way, at least you know they got it and can read it if they chose to.
2. Once you send the message you have no way to tell if the other person has read it. Also, anything you do to the email message on your side has nothing to do with the message on the other side.
Some email systems (not TER's email) allow you to tell if a person has read their email. That's another topic.
I know that you can tell if email has been read when sending AOL to AOl by clicking on status of sent email or clicking on return reciept proir to sending the email. what about AOL to Yahoo...or AOL to whatever or Yahoo to Yahoo...is ther a way to know if mail has been read in either of those cases, before you get a reply...if any.
I know this is true for AOL and others (MSN?) that offer this service. This makes them less than optimal.
I saw a recent news story about a third party company that does email verification. You embed a link or attachment in the mail. When the person on the other end opens the email, it notifies the third party so the sender can subsequently check. It's mostly invisible on the receiver's end.
This is slightly better but I find the whole concept kind of creepy and not that useful. Also, my outlook application automatically "reads" the first email that is in my inbox when I first bring it up. How many times have you clicked on an email and then didn't read it and just deleted it.
fr
PS Lo' and behold, today's NY Times has an article on a newer "secret" email tracker. Check out the link.
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