Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Robin L Boyea

Eliot Carleton Gillum

Imran I Qureshi

Omar H Shahine

Charles Reeves Little, Ii

William Raymond Hoffman

Michael D Schackwitz

Pablo M Stern

Thomas A Leung

Vikram S Sardesai

Roberto F Figueroa

A delivery confirmation is provided to the sender of an e-mail message. When the e-mail message is composed, a link, such as a hyperlink, is inserted into the e-mail message, such as in the body or header. The link can include information such as a message identifier and identifiers of the sender and the recipient, which are provided as a query string of the link, while a host field of the link includes the address of an e-mail/web server. When the recipient receives the e-mail message and opens it, the link is displayed along with text that instructs the user to use the link to confirm delivery. The confirmation can include displaying indicia for the e-mail message in a folder view on an interface of the sender, or sending a confirmation e-mail message to the sender, for instance. Voting by e-mail can also be provided.

Delivery confirmation for e-mail

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