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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how does current email protocol support mail receipt verification?

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how does current email protocol support mail receipt verification?
  • From: Charles MacDonald <cmacd [ at ] zeusprune [ dot ] ca>
  • Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:37:50 -0500
On 12-01-06 09:20 PM, Ian Ward wrote:


People commonly call a shared exchange server "email", and I believe with
exchange and a bunch of microsoft email clients you can tell when an email
has been displayed.

But even then, I don't know how this could ever be the same as saying that
a person actually *read* the email.


I have seen this "feature" as a bullet point to justify using outlook rather then a real E-mail system. Also the ability to "recall" a message, which will work within the outlook sphere, but results in a funny message being sent that says "fred smith asked to recall a message titled xyz" with a header that the MS clients will recognise and cause the specified message to delete.


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