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Guys,

When users using Emails function in some web base application (like sugarcrm, joomla), they might need to request read receipt from the recipients.
Here is a simple tutorial on how to add in the “Request read receipt” in email while send out email thru PHP.

I am using the phpmailer class to develop the feature, please download it from the source forge.

Here is the simple script to send out email and request for read receipt.

<?php
/**
* Simple example script using PHPMailer with exceptions enabled
* @package phpmailer
* @version $Id$
*/
 
require ('../class.phpmailer.php');
 
try {
        $mail = new PHPMailer(true); //New instance, with exceptions enabled
 
        $body             = "Please return read receipt to me.";
        $body             = preg_replace('/\\\\/','', $body); //Strip backslashes
 
        $mail->IsSMTP();                           // tell the class to use SMTP
        $mail->SMTPAuth   = true;                  // enable SMTP authentication
        $mail->Port       = 25;                    // set the SMTP server port
        $mail->Host       = "SMTP SERVER IP/DOMAIN"; // SMTP server
        $mail->Username   = "EMAIL USER ACCOUNT";     // SMTP server username
        $mail->Password   = "EMAIL USER PASSWORD";            // SMTP server password
 
        $mail->IsSendmail();  // tell the class to use Sendmail
 
        $mail->AddReplyTo("someone@something.com","SOMEONE");
 
        $mail->From       = "someone@something.com";
        $mail->FromName   = "SOMEONE";
 
        $to = "other@something.com";
 
        $mail->AddAddress($to);
 
        $mail->Subject  = "First PHPMailer Message[Test Read Receipt]";
 
        $mail->ConfirmReadingTo = "someone@something.com"; //this is the command to request for read receipt. The read receipt email will send to the email address.
 
        $mail->AltBody    = "Please return read receipt to me."; // optional, comment out and test
        $mail->WordWrap   = 80; // set word wrap
 
        $mail->MsgHTML($body);
 
        $mail->IsHTML(true); // send as HTML
 
        $mail->Send();
        echo 'Message has been sent.';
} catch (phpmailerException $e) {
        echo $e->errorMessage();
}
?>

Some modification need to be done in above script.
1. Configure SMTP mail server.
2. Set the correct FROM & FROM Name (someone@something.com, SOMEONE)
3. Set the correct TO address




Tested done with Microsoft Outlook 2007.

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