The third method is slightly more reliable.
However many email servers will not even provide any delivery information (possibly to prevent spammers getting such information). It doesn't tell you whether the email has actually been read and at best it will confirm that the email address you sent to exists. The Delivery ReceiptĪgain in Outlook the delivery receipt attempts to send you a message to tell you whether your email has successfully found the email server for the recipient. This will serve to annoy many recipients and foul up the Internet with unnecessary traffic. What is completely pointless is setting read receipts in the program (in Tools / Options / Email Options / Tracking Options) so that it is requested for every email you send. Hotmail, Gmail etc.Īt best a read receipt can be used to communicate that this email is important to you. Some email clients plainly ignore the 'read receipt' protocol - e.g. In fact many corporate email servers deny read receipts from the server – not even affording the recipient the choice to say yes or no. And that’s the point – They have a choice and many people choose to say NO. Now when the recipient receives the message they are given a choice to send the read receipt or not.