Can anyone explain please?

moneyistooshorttomention

In very simple language - as I'm not technically-minded:

1. Is it possible to send emails from a home computer to an Icloud email address? What format will the recipient address will come in? Whether they automatically also receive these emails on their mobile phones as well? Or is this Icloud emailing only done to and from mobile phones (rather than home computers) in the first place?

2. How to tell if the recipient of an ordinary email sent from a home computer to a home computer has received and read it?

There are a couple of people I suspect of being a bit "tricky to get hold of" I'm having to be in contact with at the moment and I want to check whether they have read the emails I've sent them or no - in case they say they havent received them iyswim.

Inner_Zone

If you request a 'read' receipt and if the recipient allows it to be returned it will show the e-mail has been opened, it will not show it it has been read.

moneyistooshorttomention

How do I request a "read" receipt please?

EDIT; This would be on googlemail email.

elsien

Doesn't requesting a read receipt require the other person to cooperate though? Which if they're being tricky, won't help.
You could request a delivery receipt which shows it's got there, but that doesn't mean they've opened or read it.

bouicca21

If you are really bothered about proving that the recipient has received it, then snailmail with proof of posting might be a better bet.

Neil_Jones

Read receipts don't prove anything. All it means the email has been opened by somebody. Not necessarily read. In most email programs you have to open the email and deal with the receipt request before you can read the email. And therein lies your problem. While the likes of Outlook allow you to delete email without going into it, most people will go into it, deal with the receipt request and then delete it.

To answer the first question, you can send email to it from any other address, its just another inbox. The format is typically the same you send it in, either Plain or HTML. All an iCloud account means is the person has an Apple ID and a lot of these either get forwarded somewhere else or will appear in their Apple device.

MarkFromCornwall

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

How do I request a "read" receipt please?

EDIT; This would be on googlemail email.

I don't think Google Mail for personal accounts supports read receipts, although if it's a work / college account then it probably does: in the compose window, click on 'More options' at bottom right.

moneyistooshorttomention

bouicca21 wrote: »

If you are really bothered about proving that the recipient has received it, then snailmail with proof of posting might be a better bet.

I'm thinking I might have to resort to that at some point - and send it Recorded Delivery AND with "proof of posting".

Re this person with a mobile phone text I knew the number would work on (as it was given to me by someone else a while back that they DO want to contact them and I could have just gone back to the someone else and explained it didnt seem to work).

I got their email address out of them - and have counted 7 errors in that "address":cool::cool:. So I chased and chased and texted and texted saying "doesnt work - try again" until I got an email address that sounded feasible and that has worked (as they sent a brief reply to that). The other emails I sent them bounced back at me:cool::cool:.

I have a "physical" address for them - given to me by someone else - so they cant get out of getting letters from me:D. I prefer to send emails though - as I can phrase things pretty well if I want to - but I have bad handwriting (so prefer not to send letters).

iammumtoone

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I prefer to send emails though - as I can phrase things pretty well if I want to - but I have bad handwriting (so prefer not to send letters).

Then type the letter. If you don't have a printer your local library will print it for a small charge.

I you don't have word you can download an equivalent for free.

J_B

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I prefer to send emails though - as I can phrase things pretty well if I want to - but I have bad handwriting (so prefer not to send letters).

iammumtoone wrote: »

Then type the letter. If you don't have a printer your local library will print it for a small charge.

Why not just get yourself typewriter?

spud17

iammumtoone wrote: »

Then type the letter. If you don't have a printer your local library will print it for a small charge.

I you don't have word you can download an equivalent for free.

Even Windows 10 still has Wordpad built-in, which will be enough to type a letter.