Re: Confirmation when a message has been opened

In message <61db9e0e-c229-2b17-4f52-5b90e8acb7cd@...>
     "David J. Ruck" <druck@...> wrote:

> On 18/06/2019 14:58, Richard Mellish wrote:
> > Two organisations that I belong to and that send out newsletters by
> > email have recently reported statistics of how many members open these
> > messages. This presumably depends on either the member's mail client
> > or the webmail system (whichever the member uses) sending some sort of
> > acknowledgment back to the sender when a message is opened.
> > 
> > Am I right in assuming that MPro does not do this? Is that unusual or
> > are the statistics likely to be missing members who use other mail
> > clients?
> 
> Or rightly paranoid people who have read receipts set to never. Even
> when the client asks you whether you want to send a receipt, it's too
> easy to accidental do so, and confirm to a spammer that you would like
> plenty more of his product.

Which is why those organisation's statistics are likely to be worthless.

-- 
Fred

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