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Palins Email - can Yahoo! request read receipts?
A lot of the emails in Palins allegedly hacked email account have the form:
fek9wnr@yahoo.com
Delivered: Re: Staff at the House on Saturday Morning
Sat, 8/2/08 3KB
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These look like read receipts. So the question is can Yahoo! mail be configured to ask for, or to send read receipts?
OK, so I've answered my own question.
Yes, it can, if you use an email client with POP/SMTP access to the yahoo account and use the client to ask for a Delivery / Read receipt.
This aspect of the Palin email saga seems to be possibly genuine.
OK, so I've answered my own question.
Yes, it can, if you use an email client with POP/SMTP access to the yahoo account and use the client to ask for a Delivery / Read receipt.
This aspect of the Palin email saga seems to be possibly genuine.
2 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
It doesn't work with Yahoo Mail Classic or New Yahoo Mail.
Mail plus has the read receipt option, but it costs 19.99$ a year.
Note: even when using mail plus or any of the other mail progs like Outlook, you do not have the guaranty that you get a read receipt because a recipient can opt out of sending such notices. Reason behind this: by denying a read receipt, you make sure that spammers don't know whether they hit a real mail address.
- Anonymous5 years ago
It does not paintings with Yahoo freemail. Mail plus has the examine receipt selection, whether it expenses 19.ninety 9$ a twelve months. observe: even while using mail plus or any of the different mail progs, you haven't any longer have been given the make specific which you get a examine receipt using fact a recipient can choose out of sending such notices. reason of this: with the aid of denying a examine receipt, you be sure that spammers do no longer comprehend whether or no longer they hit a actual mail handle. there's a software suggested as "SpyPig" that could assist you to to get examine receipts. whether it in user-friendly terms works if the two sender and receiver enable html-mail. In html-mail you could contain monitoring cookies which notify you while an digital mail is opened. that's precisely the type of software SPAMMERS use, and consequently you're able to desire to in no way enable html-mail...