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Confimax - Certified Email Service

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Confimax

Confimax

Heinz Tschabitscher

The Bottom Line

Confimax makes it easy to receive return receipts as soon as the recipient opens a messages. Unfortunately, these receipts aren't guaranteed.

Pros

  • Implements read receipts without recipient action
  • Outlook Express, Outlook, Lotus plug-ins
  • Confimax is easy to use

Cons

  • Confimax doesn't work under all circumstances
  • Privacy infringement

Description

  • Confimax notifies you when your email is opened by the recipient.
  • Confimax works by inserting a small image in your emails.
  • When the recipient opens the message, the image is downloaded from Confimax' server.
  • The server logs this and sends the read receipt in return.
  • Plug-ins for Outlook, Outlook Express and Lotus Notes.
  • Confimax can also be used with any email client and Web-based email service.

Guide Review - Confimax - Certified Email Service

Wouldn't it be nice if you could be sure somebody got — and opened — your email?

With Confimax, sending certified email is easy. Instead of recipient@example.com, you send the mail to recipient=example.com@confimax.com, or you make use of one of the plug-ins, and as soon as I open your mail you'll get notified via email.

Unfortunately, you will only get a notification from Confimax if I use a HTML-enabled email client, if I haven't turned off fetching remote images for security reasons and if I am connected to the Net while reading your message.

That's a lot of prerequisites, and I can make the return receipt not arrive and still pretend I didn't get your message. Confimax is easy to use and nice, but not reliable enough.

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