Another questions for the brainy clever IT folk

[Moose]

Can you tell if someone has read(viewed)  the e-mail you have sent other than the messege read command which can be cancelled. even if it needs extra software. ?

[300+]

It's not fool proof but you can do some messing with HTML.

If you include a picture that is fetched from a website when the message is opened in a HTMLified mail reader you can check the web logs to determine which IP read the mail and when. This will also help you work out if the message was forwarded, etc.

Should someone not use an htmlified mail client, or not be connected to the internet when they read the mail, then this will not work.

Personally I have used a single pixel transparent gif in this way to trace people (harassment cases).

Steve

[strapping young lad]

one cunning way to make sure your email is read is to make the subject an enticing one...

no dont use stuff like (youve won a million!) but use words which will reach into the recipients curiosity and then at least it will be read.

you could.. i suppose ring them to see if they read it..

but regarding the read receipts.. i may be wrong but are they not resticted to outlook?

unsure if other clients can handle/process these.

[Moose]

My question was targeted to enable me to get one over on the Group MD, who constantly claims not to have receved my e-mails, when it suits him.

[strapping young lad]

hmm

do you know how he reads his emails?


is it with outlook or something else?

do you have an email policy/culture in place regarding work emails chris?

[orlando]

My question was targeted to enable me to get one over on the Group MD, who constantly claims not to have receved my e-mails, when it suits him.

If it's on an internal network, and you're mail server is MS Exchange, with Outlook (not OL Express) mail clients, setting a "Request read receipt for this message" under the options button will make the outlook client at the other end automatically send a RR back to the sender when the mail is read. Only if the users deletes the mail without reading it will they be prompted to return the read receipt.

Also if you set the 'Sensitivity' to 'private' the recipient can't alter of modify your mail if they reply or forward it onto anyone else.

[datalas]

BCC his boss, or admin or someone... then they know he's talking out of his a....  something

Either that or call him an officious tosspot at the bottom of the mail, or tell him you fancy his wife or daughter, or son...

His reaction will indicate to all that he recieved such documents ;)

[Moose]

Hummm,  who is going to pay me next month if  do :D

[strapping young lad]

is your boss in the same office chris?

doesnt matter either way but you could give the important info in a typed memo

or if not a letter by post (registered of course)

[datalas]

Hummm,  who is going to pay me next month if  do :D

In which case sign it "Love Moose" and make out it's him you fancy..

They're not allowed to sack you for that  :twisted:

[Moose]

In which case sign it "Love Moose" and make out it's him you fancy..

But he is ugly   :lol: