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Hierdie gesprek is in die argief. Vra asseblief 'n nuwe vraag as jy hulp nodig het.

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With snail mail we have "registered mail" i.e. the Sender has a piece of paper which confirms that the letter has been SENT, and the receiver must sign receipt.

Is there such a thing with thunderbird? To cancel a memebership, I was told to send an email with a "sent confirmantion", i.e. I get some sort of proof that I actually SENT it.

(In my opinion this is NOT ot the same as a confirmation that the other party has READ it)

Is there such an option?

I use version 24.6.0

THANKS!

With snail mail we have "registered mail" i.e. the Sender has a piece of paper which confirms that the letter has been SENT, and the receiver must sign receipt. Is there such a thing with thunderbird? To cancel a memebership, I was told to send an email with a "sent confirmantion", i.e. I get some sort of proof that I actually SENT it. (In my opinion this is NOT ot the same as a confirmation that the other party has READ it) Is there such an option? I use version 24.6.0 THANKS!

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I'm not aware of any such mechanism in regular email. I wonder what they had in mind?

A Read Receipt, if properly replied to by the recipient would of course imply that the message had been sent, and received, and you as the sender would receive the "it has been read" notice, hence providing fairly strong evidence that you sent it. But of course the acknowledgement of a Read Receipt is entirely voluntary on the part of the recipient, so cannot be relied upon to prove you sent a message.

The lack of a "proof of posting" is I think a limitation of the email protocols; I doubt that you'll find any email client that can do this.