asp.net read/delivery receipts

[RLK1983UK]

Hi, I don't know much about asp.net, but I have question that I need answering, so I hope you can help.

can Delivery Receipts on email be written into the code?
I am aware that read receipts can be done, along with email tracking, but I need to know if delivery receipts can be done also.

many thanks in advance
Ria

 

[djfrear]

I believe there is a setting in MailMessage:

MailMessage msg = new MailMessage();

msg.DeliveryNotificationOptions = DeliveryNotificationOptions.OnSuccess;

You may also need to add a couple of extra headers to the email:

msg.Headers.Add("Disposition-Notification-To", sender);
msg.Headers.Add("Return-Path", sender);

sender being a String variable.

Hope this helps a little.

Regards, Daniel.

 

[RLK1983UK]

I am being told by a development guy who is doing work for our company that unless we upgrade to the latest version of aspnet email this cannot happen.

is this the case?

thanks

 

[djfrear]

Well the "latest" would be .NET 3.5 but that's currently in Beta, so the most current release would be .NET 2.0 i'd imagine - and as far as I know, this feature is supported in .NET 2.0.

As far as I can tell, as long as you have the proper namespace in your using declarations it shoudl work in .NET 2.0 (System.Net.Mail).