message opened receipts required when sending to other websites

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When sending an email through Outlook you can receive notification when the
message is received and opened when sending an email to another party using
Outlook. You can get notification of receipt but not openeing when sending to
another site such a Yahoo or Google.

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[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

That's not Outlook's problem. It cannot govern the behavior of other mail clients. behavior. Not all mail clients send back read receipts. That's one of the reasons that read receipts are largely unreliable.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers