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Originally Posted by balok
This is a major problem affecting the reliability of email. The only way around it would be to use receipts. It would be nice if all email clients supported receipts and if clients would identify a message as "pending receipt" and then as "received by addressee" when the email is opened and read.
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Even if they could, and most can, plenty of people have turned it off because they, like me, do not want spam senders to be notified my account is active and receiving their mail. Or that my friends knows I have read the mail where he asks my help to move all his heavy furniture.