email notifier question ??

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:23 PM, yoma <yomatatata at gmail.com> wrote:

>   Is it really impossible to get the message receipt ??
> i hope more people to help me!
> --
>

When you send the email, there isn't even any way to ensure that it got
through, let alone that the recipient read it. When you send an email, it
sits on a server until the recipient's email client tries to recieve it.
Neither of the commonly used protocols has any support for even sending a
message to another server (just communicating between the email client and
the mail server), let alone sending a confirmation message to the sender.
Servers that use POP3 won't even know when the message is read. Short of
implementing your own protocol or writing your own mail client, you won't be
able to get a confirmation regardless of what language you use.
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