Reply to: Read Receipts

[n5gooner]

I use bcc and read receipts, depending on what I'm sending. Certainly wouldn't request a read receipt for every email I send, I get enough junk mail!

One cunning thing I like about Outlook is that you can display a column that holds a yes/no to let you know if a read receipt has been requested. I then only open an email with the yes flag when I want that person to know that I've read their email! Unfortunately, where I'm working at the moment is a Notes environment and I haven't figured out an equivalent yet.

snap yes yes yes......and when you do find out, please let me know, as we also use pants Notes.

[ladymuck]

I believe the retrieve function only works if it is configured for that environment. In one site where I worked, it only worked for one domain and not the whole forest. That might be due to the way it was set up or it could be a feature of exchange!

[Joe Bloggs]

Another cool function in Outlook/Exchange which I didn't know until recently is that you can retrieve emails if they've not been read. e.g, send email to boss saying he's a tw*t, regret the somewhat hasty decision and still retrieve the email with him none the wiser.

I'm not sure, but I think you can check who's read the email as well using this function?

[ladymuck]

I use bcc and read receipts, depending on what I'm sending. Certainly wouldn't request a read receipt for every email I send, I get enough junk mail!

One cunning thing I like about Outlook is that you can display a column that holds a yes/no to let you know if a read receipt has been requested. I then only open an email with the yes flag when I want that person to know that I've read their email! Unfortunately, where I'm working at the moment is a Notes environment and I haven't figured out an equivalent yet.

[mcquiggd]

I love it when some admin type sends an email to the entire company with a read receipt request... happens at every company ive worked at.

[G8_Summit]

To annoy people who request read receipts, repeatedly read the email and mark it as unread. A couple of hundred read receipts will soon make them turn this "feature" off !!!

[PRC1964]

Another bug/issue is that most email programs let you preview the email without openeing it. This generally does not trigger the Read receipt.

[AlfredJPruffock]

How about the Bcc field? Ooh now thats a cheeky one...

An indispensible tool for the wanna be Office Politican !

I recall a few years back there was an interesting bug with the Notes Mail insofar as when the BCC option was used, mails would be sent and received in the usual manner, ie any entrys in the BCC field would not be displayed ,

However if the recipent then printed the mail,the bug would cause the BCC info would be printed in all its devastating detail ... ahem ...

[mcquiggd]

People can turn read receipts off - best course of action is BCC yourself and request a DELIVERY receipt which is usually out of the persons control (depends on the mail system if its available or not).

Then you have proof you wrote the email, and hopefully proof it reached the persons inbox - if they didnt read it its their problem.


I usually do this after meetings to check I am performing my activities according to an agreed plan.

[ratewhore]

Nah, the worst people are those that copy in every man and his dog when he wants to slag you off.

[Xenophon]

yes but you can get unstuck with that one, when the person who you have Bcc'd then foward the email on and enters the disscussion......

Funny you should say that because that has happened to me. He was an IT Director of all people too. Didn't even notice that he had been Bcc'd.

[n5gooner]

How about the Bcc field? Ooh now thats a cheeky one...

yes but you can get unstuck with that one, when the person who you have Bcc'd then foward the email on and enters the disscussion......

[Xenophon]

How about the Bcc field? Ooh now thats a cheeky one...

[n5gooner]

sorry I do it all the time, to cover my ass, when you recomend somthing, or ask for action to take place, the permies read the email, but take no action, well whos fault is it that system x is still not up and running.....not mine because I recomended this action, it would have fixed the problem.......


now it does depend, I guess, on the type of email you're sending...........

[voron]

On the contrary, requesting read receipts is a great way of covering your back, as when the sh1t hits the fans (which is always does) you have some wonderful evidence that you stated x and requested y, but it wasn't done because permie z is a lazy bastard.

The great thing about being a consultant is that you can recommend all sorts of wonderful solutions which the client would never be able to implement (for a variety of reasons), but you have recommended, they haven't listened, so they are a bunch of gutless swine.

Btw, I am a vvanker. But you already knew that