Read receipt on icloud... does it work?

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Read receipt on icloud... does it work?

I was on icloud today and someone sent me an email and I mistakenly clicked on it without thinking first. I don't want this person to know I've seen their email at all as well, long story short, I'm not wanting them to contact me anymore.

If they send me an email from their work (presumably done through MS Outlook) with a read receipt on it, will it show that I've read it if I've done it through icloud?

Nothing popped up as well for a read receipt notification but I think they're being sneaky anyways, I just wanted to know if they could tell if I opened this email.

TIA,

Dale

Posted on Jul 31, 2012 12:12 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 31, 2012 1:10 PM in response to Dale Thompson

They can't tell. Apple/iCloud Mail does not handle read receipts, and even if if it did you have to allow the receipt to return.

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Answer 2

Jul 31, 2012 1:11 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Thanks Roger, good to know and thank goodness 🙂

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kip7

Level 1

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Aug 19, 2014 1:51 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Are you sure this is the case?

I have recently had a situation where a company is sighting the fact that I opened an e-mail sent by them at a specific time in May 2013. I opened the e-mail in iCloud on my mother's computer.

The fact that I opened the e-mail is not anything I would have denied anyway, but this has left me with a feeling of invasion of privacy.

How can ensure that my reading or not of my e-mails is something that is private to me ?

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Csound1

Level 9

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Aug 19, 2014 2:16 AM in response to kip7

Ask them, they did not get a receipt from Mail but there are plenty of other resources available to an IT dept, especially at the behest of the legal dept.

Take a look at your other posting, the one in the thread you revived, did you bother to read it?

That poster thought mail was sending a receipt, but he was wrong. Read the thread.

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