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Bhushan
Bhushan

Reputation: 6181

getting the read receipt

I am using javamail for sending emails. My requirement is to get read receipt from the recipient.

So far from my search on the net I have come across to some third party services which uses Images for this purpose. One drawback I have seen in those services is that in gmail we have to click on display image to open the images, and if user doesn't click on it then we can't get the read receipt from user even if he has read the mail.

So my question is what are the other ways to get read receipt. Without using third party services.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 996

Answers (1)

chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic-
chrylis -cautiouslyoptimistic-

Reputation: 77167

There's no reliable way to do that, mostly because it's a privacy issue. You can ask for a Message Disposition Notification, but at best the client will ask the recipient whether to send a return receipt. As you know, you can also embed an image that will get loaded when a message is viewed as HTML, but (1) some people will still view plain text instead of HTML, and (2) image loading is blocked by most HTML mail programs specifically to prevent what you're trying to do.

Upvotes: 3

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