Hi.

I've tried in the past to enable Read Receipts in TB. They never seem to work. Is there a sure way of getting them to work? An addon, maybe?

Thanks.

But how are they supposed to work reliably? When I get a notification begging me to click on a button to confirm to sender me having received their message, I never bother to do so.

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I seem to recall Windoze users expect they will always work (using M$oft clients). Some of us expect to have a choice - what a radical concept ...

Why not? That sounds like bad manners to me.

Agreed. The only times I've seen any reliability is on in-house email systems using Outlook or (back in the day) Lotus notes...but those were business systems owned by the company who chose to implement them.

Requesting at read receipt is rude, IMO. The polite thing to do is just ignore rudeness.

We can agree to disagree on that then, Sean. :-)

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Well, if the message comes from somebody I know then I think it would be more appropriate to reply in person, even if only with a couple of words like "thank you" or "will do" or "note taken". And if it is from somebody I don't know or is some sort of a circular letter then why should I be bothered to confirm?

That only leaves messages that require a detailed reply, but I don't have time to deal with them currently. But in this case, I'll also write back something like "Sorry, have no time, will reply in detail later" rather then just confirm the reception and let the other side wonder why I'm not replying.