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SentThere 3.0

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By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com

SentThere - Certified Email Service

SentThere - Certified Email Service

Heinz Tschabitscher

The Bottom Line

SentThere provides a simple and easy to use system for email return receipts, but it lacks power and reliability.
SentThere is, alas, no longer available.

Pros

  • SentThere sends return receipts
  • Requires no action at the recipient's end
  • Works with all email clients

Cons

  • SentThere does not work in all cases
  • Constitutes privacy invasion

Description

  • SentThere allows you to get a return receipt when the recipient of an email opens it.
  • Works by inserting a small image, which is downloaded from a server when the message is opened.
  • SentThere includes a simple message editor.
  • Integrates with all email clients by working as an intermediary SMTP server.
  • SentThere supports attachments, inline images, and multimedia emails.
  • SentThere supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP.

Guide Review - SentThere 3.0

One of the most interesting features of email is how easy it is to ignore a message. Sometime some people act as if they never got an email. And you wonder: did they really not get it? did they choose not to answer?

With SentThere, the answer to the first question is clear: if you get a receipt, they read the message. There's no action required at the recipient's end other than — and that's the catch — using a HTML-enabled email client and being connected while reading the message. That's quite a bit of a prerequisite for a return receipt that's supposed to be reliable.

At least: if you get a receipt, you can be sure. And SentThere surely is easy to use and integrates well with virtually all email clients.

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