I have heard it is possible to find out if someone has read your email
without them sending you a read receipt. The reason I need this facaility is
that certain people are saying I have not emailed them and I have
confirmation in my bcc column but I would like to know they have actually
read this without them knowing I know...So to speak. I have outlook express
2003. I have heard this is possible as apparently the police force has this??

leelapeela <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I have heard it is possible to find out if someone has read your email
> without them sending you a read receipt.

Of course this is true. Everyone has the option of ignoring read receipt
requests. You'd never get a read receipt from me, for example, because it's
none of your business when or even whether I read my mail.

> The reason I need this
> facaility is that certain people are saying I have not emailed them
> and I have confirmation in my bcc column but I would like to know
> they have actually read this without them knowing I know.

WIthout tools other than Outlook, this isn't possible.

> So to speak. I have outlook express 2003.

There is no such application as Outlook Express 2003. You have either
Outlook Express (v6, probably) or Outlook 2003. Help>About will tell you.

> I have heard this is possible as
> apparently the police force has this??

If you're using an Exchange server and the messages are internal, then the
Exchange administrator can force the honoring of read receipt requests.
Otherwise, I don't think it's possible.
--
Brian Tillman

Brian Tillman <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> leelapeela <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> I have heard it is possible to find out if someone has read your
>> email without them sending you a read receipt.
>
> Of course this is true. Everyone has the option of ignoring read
> receipt requests. You'd never get a read receipt from me, for
> example, because it's none of your business when or even whether I
> read my mail.

I mistyped and this should have been "not true". Unless you have sometthing
like a web bug embedded in the message, you can't find out if someone had
read your message without them having sent a read receipt.
--
Brian Tillman