Email Question

[TheSearcher]

Hello All,

I am using CDO to send an automated email to a customer after a certain event occurs. The code works fine and the email gets delivered as it should (assuming it's a valid email address).
However, how can I check whether the email successfully reached its destination? In Microsoft Outlook if the email does not successfully reach the recipient the sender will get a notice stating that the email failed. How can I duplicate that functionality in Access?
I'm using Access 2010 with Windows 7.

Thanks,
TS

 

[spikepl]

Define "In Microsoft Outlook if the email does not successfully reach the recipient "

If you bungled the addressing, some servers will respond saying no one of that name here. Many sysmanagers do not allow this, since this implicitly verifies emails for spammers. As to a positive acknowledgement of reception, that is a feature that exists in Outook, but again, many system managers switch off the sending of such receipts.

In other words you cannot find anything reliable in general.

 

[Cronk]

If it's not possible to tell if the recipient has received the email, is it possible to tell if the recipient has read the email?

(Sorry, joking, it's been one of those days.)

 

[smig]

As I know these option do not exist in CDO.
They do exist in other tools. Look for example at Orsoft's SMTP.

As spikepl said you can't realy trust it.

 

[TheSearcher]

Thanks everyone. That's what I suspected.