On Sat, 03 May 2014 21:25:12 -0400, micky
wrote:

On Sat, 03 May 2014 14:30:23 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 3 May 2014 17:59:32 GMT, KenK wrote:

Tony Hwang wrote in news:UtT8v.1067042$2N5.636802
:

When I
send email usually I enable the option to make sure it
is delivered(and read)

How do you do that? I use gmail mostly, sometimes my ISP's email. I've
never noticed this option.

It is an option in Microsoft Outlook. Not sure about others.

I think it's an option in every real mail client (i.e. mail program),
and probably not in any webmail setup. One more reason to use one, like
Eudora 7, which is now free (later versions are also free but they are
not really Eudora. They are mozilla software made to appear like
Eudora.)

It's called Return Receipt Requested. Although afaik, you can't
tell if it has been delievered, unless it's been opened. ????

Don't know about Mozilla or Eudora, but outlook 2007 and above, for
sure, give a delivered report that the recipient has no control over,
The read report is a request that can be ignored.

And you can't tell if it's been read, only if it's been opened, and if
the recipient says, "Don't tell him even that", it won't. I presume
all of them work about the same way. The best situation woudl be that
mine had all those options and other programs could only obey my request
for a receipt, but I doubt it is that way. I usually cooperate,
howevrer.

I've used Erols/RCN/Starpower webmail and Verizon webmail, mostly when
traveling, and they have nowhere near the capabilities of real mail
client.

If one wants to keep his travel computer and his home computer
synchronized for email, he can use IMAP instead of POP. That's what
it's designed for.