Request a Delivery receipt (Outlook / Thunderbird)

If you want to know if your email has been sent successfully to your recipient then you must activate certains options in in Outlook and Thunderbird
Get a receipt with Outlook
Receipt for an email
- Outlook 2007. When writing a message, click Options. Check Request a delivery receipt. To ensure that your message has been read/opened by your recipient, select "request a read receipt"
- Outlook 2000-2003. When writing a message, click Options> Tracking Options. Check "Request a read receipt for this message."
- Automatic acknowledgment to each mail
- In the main window of Outlook (2000, 2003, 2007), click: Tools> Options. In "Preferences", click Mail Options> Tracking Options.
- Then check the "read receipts" (or "confirm reading each message).
Get a receipt with Thunderbird
- When writing a message, click on Tools/ Select Request a delivery receipt.
- Automatic acknowledgment to each mail
- In the main program window, click on Tools> Options.
- In the Options window, click on "receipts" in the lower right.
- A new window opens. Check When sending a message, always ask for a receipt.