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

From: Sally Vaughan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 23:31:43 +0000

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

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 09:39:15 +0000 (GMT)

You could contact them and ask them!

Seriously, there are mechanisms to *request* a message be sent back to 
you automatically when your message is delivered and/or read.

However whether these requests are actually honoured depends on whether:

*  The mail delivery software (for delivery receipt requests) or mail
   reading software (for read receipt requests) actually supports the
   feature, and

*  Whether the feature is enabled or not by the System Administrator/user.

Pine 3.91, for example, does not include support for automatic 
acknowledgement of messages that have been read.  (Some people, 
including myself, consider such automatic notification an invasion of my 
privacy ... why should my software tell you when I've read your message?!)

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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