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Request a Return Receipt for an Email

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.ReturnReceipt property. Set it to true to request a return-receipt when the message is received; this causes a Disposition-Notification-To header to be added when the email is sent. The default is false. This example enables the request.

Background: A return receipt (technically a Message Disposition Notification, MDN) asks the recipient's mail client to send back a small confirmation when the message is opened. It is only a request: the receiving client or server is free to ignore it, and many prompt the user before sending anything. Because of this, a return receipt is not reliable proof that a human actually read the message — treat it as a courtesy signal, not a guarantee.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

#  Demonstrates the Email.ReturnReceipt property.  Set to true to request a
#  return-receipt when the email is received.  This causes a Disposition-Notification-To
#  header to be added when the email is sent.  The default is false.

$email = New-Object Chilkat.Email
$email.Subject = "Please confirm receipt"
$email.Body = "Kindly confirm you received this message."
$email.From = "alice@example.com"
$email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")

#  Request a return receipt.
$email.ReturnReceipt = $true

$("ReturnReceipt = " + $email.ReturnReceipt)