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I have a few clients who I would like to know when they opened an email I sent them. Is there such a facility in Yahoo, Gmail, or Live accounts. I have not found it, but I know that Outlook used to have it. I would use it sparingly because I realize that this would double my traffic.
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Sorry, I think you're out of luck
AFAIK, none of those email services provide read receipts.
Read receipts in Gmail
There are some workarounds here: Internet Email Hacks: Get Notified When Your Email Message is Read, but it's a lot of work, when it's probably easier to request a reply from the recipient.
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read receipts have been deprecated (no longer supported) for a few years now. If you find a client that supports them then they are considered 'legacy' (old) clients.
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nobody.
Even when they were supported...
...people turned them off. I know I did. If you think about the feature (which the RFC gurus eventually did) the "return receipt" feature was a junk mailer's dream, enabling them to quickly build "verified" mailing lists and creating a record of your "email" to the spammer, thereby converting you into a proven customer, which makes the list more valuable, ensuring even more spam will be winging its merry way onto your mail server.
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The latest standard is now called return receipt. You will find this usually in the sending options for e-mails.
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You can use Outlook and similar email programs to get...
Your Gmail locally. That way assuming your email program supports sending with Return Receipt you can do it. I use Thunderbird (from Mozilla) and believe it supports Return Receipts, as does Outlook, Eudora...etc
Hugs
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The SeaMonkey 2.0 Suite has just been released and it supports Return Receipts, as did its predecessors the Mozilla Suite and Netscape.
Of course, you can set your preferences to ignore Return Receipt requests, to automatically send a receipt or ask you if you want to send one. The latter is the way I have mine set, so I only send receipts to trusted people.
I always ask for a receipt when sending an email but very few people actually send one! Even if you receive a receipt, it only means that the email was opened, it doesn't guarantee it was actually read!
There used to also be a receipt to indicate that an email had been received by the recipient's ISP but I haven't seen that for a very long time.
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Dave.