Subject: Re: Has my mail been read?????

From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 07:55:46 -0500

On 18 Mar 1996, Sally Vaughan wrote:

: How can I tell if a e-mail message I have sent through pine has been 
: read by the person I sent it to????

    In general, you can't.  Sorry.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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From: John Harris <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 17:00:53 -0800

Use the UNIX Finger utility with the -l option and your target's e-mail 
address as an argument as follows:

finger -l <e-mail address>  

Finger gives you information as to whether or not your target is logged 
in, when he was last logged in, when he last read his mail and when he 
received the last e-mail, if any, and some other information as well.

Note that if your target's system administrator has disabled the finger
utility, you will not be able to determine if your target has received
your message or not. 

John