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by mmsingh

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Can anybody help me in getting a solution for email management, which can have a provision for email trasing(somewhat also called as "Auto - Response").

Means if we send a mail to person 'X' & that person sends it to person to 'Z' & person 'Z' send the same mail to person 'A'. When all this mailing is being done,the person 'X' {being a head} is being informed through some header email (person's "X") that the person 'Z' & 'A' has seen this email.

I hope you have understood our requirements. Kindly help us in this junction by giving us the code in VB or VB Script.

Kindly tell us if we need any other requirements.

Please treat it an SOS.

I will be waiting for your reply.

Gagan

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by albert franco ii

This is not possible with internet mail. What X and Z does with their copies will not be transmitted to anyone. The "return reciept" option in POP/SMTP systems is voluntary.

What you would need to enforce a system of this type is to use NOTES with a very specific set of parameters and even then it would only work for mail that stayed inside the system. Once that mail hits the internet there's no way to trace it.

On the other hand a virus might work. If you knew that all of the readers used windows for example you could put a virus in the mail that mailed the title of the document and the most recent e-mail header (to and from info) to your e-mail address. The downside to this approach is that smart users avoid viruses and almost never activate them.

Again the idea of silently tracking an e-mail once you send it is not yet possible with existing technology.

Contact me at apf2.ihatespam@apf2.com (cut the commentary out) to discuss this in more detail.

Good Luck,
Al Franco, II
APF Creations
Pamplona, Spain

by ann777

There's no way to accomplish this via Visual Basic or any other coding.

Anything written on e-mail or on the Internet, you can count on it being relayed just about anywhere. Nothing confidential should be relayed though these methods -- without encryption.

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