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Requesting delivery/read receipt from C# using MailMessage class

published 780 days, 9 hours, 24 minutes ago posted by

http://prashantmx.myopenid.com/ 783 days, 11 hours, 41 minutes ago

Sending e-mail through code is easy, but how do we get to know that an e-mail that we send is delivered and read by the intended recipient. When we send e-mail through code we can request a delivery notification and read receipt from the receiver, similar to the way we do in outlook. But the problem is not every mail server supports this kind of request from the code. We set a mail header while sending mail from code which is then processed by the mail server and the sender of the mail gets the intended ...