Can a read receipt get lost if accepted?

[Guest]

I sent a time sensitive message to a contact with a read receipt attached.
The contact claims to have received the message, claims to have seen the read
receipt, and claims to have accepted it. I never recieved confirmation of
receipt and it did not show up as read in my tracking function. The other
two recipients of the e-mail accepted the read receipt and I recieved
notification from them as designed. It should also be noted that myself and
all three recipients use the same domain, and that we are the only four
members/users of that domain (so its not aol or hotmail). Is it possible
that my contact could have, in fact, accepted my read reciept and for that
notification to get lost on its way back to me? Intuitively - a read receipt
would act like a yo-yo (especially within the same domain)....if it
succesfully reaches the bottom it won't get lost on its way back to the top.
The path has already been established. Faulty logic?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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I sent a time sensitive message to a contact with a read receipt
attached. The contact claims to have received the message, claims to
have seen the read receipt, and claims to have accepted it. I never
recieved confirmation of receipt and it did not show up as read in my
tracking function. The other two recipients of the e-mail accepted
the read receipt and I recieved notification from them as designed.
It should also be noted that myself and all three recipients use the
same domain, and that we are the only four members/users of that
domain (so its not aol or hotmail). Is it possible that my contact
could have, in fact, accepted my read reciept and for that
notification to get lost on its way back to me? Intuitively - a read
receipt would act like a yo-yo (especially within the same
domain)....if it succesfully reaches the bottom it won't get lost on
its way back to the top. The path has already been established.
Faulty logic?

Read receipts can be blocked at the client, or at the server, router,
whatnot. Are you using internet mail or Exchange?
I wouldn't place too much importance on read receipts, esp. as the recipient
has acknowleged receipt of the message. I personally abhor read receipt
requests and block them.

 

[Guest]

To ask it another way - what is most likely...that the read receipt got lost
or that I was lied to!? On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the most
confident, how sure are you about that opinion?

 

[Guest]

I believe I use internet e-mail as I've never dealt with any Exchange
program. Whether my domain administrator uses Exchange and whether that is
relevant - I don't know. I understand that the reciepts can be blocked and
declined and that they are somewhat socially unacceptable but that is not the
point of my question. I simply want to know from a technical standpoint
whether it is physically possible for the read receipt to get lost on its way
back to the sender if the reciever clicked "yes" to accept the reciept. The
fact that the read receipt appeared is not in question. The contact claims
that he accepted the receipt and that got lost on its way back to me and I
want to know if that is possible - especially since we have the same domain.
There have been times that we could not send e-mail to anyone BUT those in
our domain. It almost acts like a LAN (according to what little I know about
LAN's) - so how can an "internal" read receipt get lost?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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I believe I use internet e-mail as I've never dealt with any Exchange
program. Whether my domain administrator uses Exchange and whether
that is relevant - I don't know. I understand that the reciepts can
be blocked and declined and that they are somewhat socially
unacceptable but that is not the point of my question. I simply want
to know from a technical standpoint whether it is physically possible
for the read receipt to get lost on its way back to the sender if the
reciever clicked "yes" to accept the reciept.
Yes.

The fact that the read
receipt appeared is not in question. The contact claims that he
accepted the receipt and that got lost on its way back to me and I
want to know if that is possible -

Sure. It could've been blocked by one of the servers, gateways, anything.

especially since we have the same
domain.

But are you on the same *mail* server?

There have been times that we could not send e-mail to anyone
BUT those in our domain. It almost acts like a LAN (according to
what little I know about LAN's) - so how can an "internal" read
receipt get lost?

Doesn't sound like you have an internal mail server, so it's hard to say.