Can I get a mail delivered acknowledgement when sending emails to external contacts?

In addition, only mail clients like Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape mail, and other major mail programs support mail receipts.  Generally web-based email does not, except for Hotmail when used inside Outlook Express.

Here's an alternative, however.  This may serve your purposes:  http://www.readnotify.com/readnotify/


-Ares

> Title: Can I get a mail delivered acknowledgement when sending emails to external contacts?

The answer is a definite maybe. It takes more than one.

> However, it the mail destination is out of the domain (eg. to yahoo.com or abc@company.com), I don't get this acknowledgement.

Domain is irrelevant.  For example, I use same Outlook and server as one (you?) sending me mail. I have option in outlook whether to acknowledge them or not. So issue is not relevant to domain but the first the packages used (do they also use outlook/exchange) and its capabilities, but to the user's own setup.

Concerning receipts, there are third party influences as well. Not just my mailserver and yours, but some relay servers that may have additional functionality such as translation of protocols.  I've seen these units mark as received, when in fact they have not even made it to the user's server (and I also consider this an innappropriate implementation, but that is another matter. Some day realize that you cannot always get what you want, just beacause you want it:

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You could also ask why when you paste html of gif into notepad that it doesn;t look the same. This is simliar enouth, in that all the parties must first use the same rules and procedures. This is best done by using same package/version/manufacturer since they (especially so for MS) are so proprietary (not shared standard). But as said, even with only outlook/exchange, same versions and connections, all same lan even, you cannot count on or depend upon it to work. You still need each user to configure identically and decide identically. For a different question, I just got a popup when reading a memo saying that the sender wants to know when I read it. To I want to send? (I can say no).

Other problem with read receipts is the outlook preview window. I go to preview mode, read it, it never gets coded as read. When done I delete it. Then user can get a receipt, and ask me how come I delete their memos without ever reading them (having received a receipt to that effect).

The answer is, that no, there is nothing reliable or dependable about any read receepts. If you can agree to do it with a friend, and succeed, then more power to ya. If you are trying to generate a spam list of valid accounts for resale to others, then I say tough bananas, try doing some real work for a change that can be of value.