[PLUG-TALK] MUAs and "Mail Opened" Indicator

[Dwight Hubbard]

On Thursday 31 January 2008 06:01:38 pm Rich Shepard wrote:
>    I was chided by an associate for not using Lookout! ... er, Outlook, so
> I could determine whether recipients of email messages had opened and
> (presumably) read the message I sent. My explanation that I've used nothing
> Microsoft for more than a decade fell on deaf ears.

Clueless people are everywhere unfortunetly.

>    But, this brings up two questions:
>
>    1) Can outlook determine if the message has been opened when the
> recipient's MUA is pine, mutt, elm, Thunderchicken, Sylpheed, or something
> other than Outlook?

Lots of mail programs support MDNs, I know Kmail supports them I'm pretty sure 
evolution did as well.  So the program doesn't have to be outlook.
>
>    2) Is this capability of determining whether recipients have seen a sent
> message available in any other MUA?

The notifications can be turned off in pretty much every mail program I've 
seen (Including outlook), so they are of dubious value anyways.