email receipts (2003)

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I use SendObjects to send report as attachment of email. But “Read receipt” function is not active even I set up in the Outlook. Is anyway I can get read receipt from receiver because I need to know whether he/she read my email?

If no, what

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I don’t have a specific answer to your question, but you do realize that there is NO dependable way of knowing for certain whether someone has read a message, don’t you? Even if you turn on the read receipt option when you send messages, the recipient can still prevent the receipts from going back (and many people do block them).

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Thanks for providing information. But still why I can do it by using reglar outlook not email by access?

Thanks

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Although SendObject uses Outlook if that is your default e-mail program, it creates the e-mail at a lower level. You must display the e-mail and turn on Request read receipt manually. Or create the e-mail in VBA code (which seems overkill if you can use SendObject).
As dmartin notes, read receipts are not dependable. Many people set Outlook to never send read receipts.

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Thanks a lot.

I did turn on Request read receipt on my outlook, but I still have to manually turn it on in each email from access. Can you provide more detail of set up read receipts in the VBA code, so I don’t have manually turn it on everytime???

Thanks

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Your code would have to do a LOT of work:
– Export the report to a file.
– Use Automation to create an Outlook e-mail message and set its properties.
– Attach the exported file to the e-mail.
– Send the e-mail.
– Delete the exported file.
In some circumstances, it is useful and/or necessary to use Automation; you can find many examples by searching this forum for Outlook.Application. I would say it’s not worth the trouble to do all the extra work just to turn on read receipts, since it is not a dependable feature anyway.

(The MailItem object in Outlook has a property ReadReceiptRequested that can be set to True)

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Thanks a lot.

I will take your advice.

Regards

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