+Thot Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 A person joined gc.com and began caching. The next day he picked up one of my travel bugs and commented on how much his little girl liked it. But, his log clearly indicated he understood it was a travel bug and how they work. About 10 days later he found his last cache and logged in to gc.com for the last time. That's been a couple of months ago and he still has the bug. I wrote him asking him about it be he doesn't reply. That's why I ask if there's any way to know if a person's email address still works. Link to comment
+the hermit crabs Posted December 19, 2005 Share Posted December 19, 2005 (edited) A person joined gc.com and began caching. The next day he picked up one of my travel bugs and commented on how much his little girl liked it. But, his log clearly indicated he understood it was a travel bug and how they work. About 10 days later he found his last cache and logged in to gc.com for the last time. That's been a couple of months ago and he still has the bug. I wrote him asking him about it be he doesn't reply. That's why I ask if there's any way to know if a person's email address still works. I've emailed some people through gc.com and have had them bounce back with "invalid address", so if it's truly invalid, you may get a notification. Some other times there have been no response at all -- I'd guess that those addresses are still technically valid, but either (1) the recipient never checks that email account, or (2) the recipient's spam filter is throwing them away, or (3) the recipient gets the mail but just doesn't reply. Edited December 19, 2005 by the hermit crabs Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 That's why I ask if there's any way to know if a person's email address still works. No. Some email systems will not bounce back bad addresses, for a number of reasons. Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 I'm not sure which is worse, bad addresses or ignored inboxes. Certainly no decent person would just delete emails. Whatever is happening, there aren't many solutions. Link to comment
+Team Cotati Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 (edited) If you use a full featured email program like Outlook you can set flags that will return notifications to you when and if the message is delivered and/or read aka opened by the recipient. Most email systems will report delivery failures to you. Thus in general, if you do not get delivery failure messages, the message in all likelyhood was delivered to the recipient's mail box. This is pretty standard email message forwarding protocol on the internet. Edited December 20, 2005 by Team Cotati Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 If you use a full featured email program like Outlook you can set flags that will return notifications to you when and if the message is delivered and/or read aka opened by the recipient. Most email systems will report delivery failures to you. Thus in general, if you do not get delivery failure messages, the message in all likelyhood was delivered to the recipient's mail box. This is pretty standard email message forwarding protocol on the internet. It also very common for recipients to have this feature turned off, since it tells spammers that they've hit a live address. Link to comment
+briansnat Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 This is not really a "getting started" issue. The geocaching.com website forum is probably the best fit so I'm sliding it over there. Link to comment
+Team Cotati Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 (edited) If you use a full featured email program like Outlook you can set flags that will return notifications to you when and if the message is delivered and/or read aka opened by the recipient. Most email systems will report delivery failures to you. Thus in general, if you do not get delivery failure messages, the message in all likelyhood was delivered to the recipient's mail box. This is pretty standard email message forwarding protocol on the internet. It also very common for recipients to have this feature turned off, since it tells spammers that they've hit a live address. It is hopless, you're screwed. Happy caching. ;-) Edited December 20, 2005 by Team Cotati Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 If you use a full featured email program like Outlook you can set flags that will return notifications to you when and if the message is delivered and/or read aka opened by the recipient. Most email systems will report delivery failures to you. Thus in general, if you do not get delivery failure messages, the message in all likelyhood was delivered to the recipient's mail box. This is pretty standard email message forwarding protocol on the internet. It also very common for recipients to have this feature turned off, since it tells spammers that they've hit a live address. First you'd have to have the email address to be able to use Outlook. I'm guessing the OP is just sending the message through gc.com. Link to comment
+Thot Posted December 20, 2005 Author Share Posted December 20, 2005 I'm guessing the OP is just sending the message through gc.com. Correct. I don't know another way, unless the person shows their email address. Link to comment
+Airmapper Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 I'm guessing the OP is just sending the message through gc.com. If you never get a reply, you don't know their address, and even then they can choose to hide it. Link to comment
+Thot Posted December 20, 2005 Author Share Posted December 20, 2005 If you use a full featured email program like Outlook you can set flags that will return notifications to you when and if the message is delivered and/or read aka opened by the recipient. It also very common for recipients to have this feature turned off, since it tells spammers that they've hit a live address. I have it turned off for exactly the reason you cite. Link to comment
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