Did you know? Delivery Confirmation on BB

[yahtzee]

Did you know that if you type in <confirm> in the subject line (must precede actual subject) that you will get a confirmation email back as soon as its delivered to the recipients BlackBerry?

[DavidE]

As Johnny Carson used to say, "I did not know that." It works on my 7290.

DavidE
www.davidenglish.com

[teskew]

Coolness!

[NEXQUIN]

Do you have to type in the "<>" or can you just type confirm? Thanks for the help!!

[yahtzee]

Do you have to type in the "<>" or can you just type confirm? Thanks for the help!!

You do have to type in the brackets <>

[Dawg]

coolness

[SAS]

just tried this the to email was my sent from address, as was the sent to email, and it really gave no info other than a timestamp.

Also the <confirm> shows up on the other users device.

but handy I suppose

[NJBlackBerry]

A very good tip. Posted a few months ago here - http://www.blackberryforums.com/showthread.php?t=3964&highlight=confirm - we should update the FAQs and tips to include this!

[yahtzee]

just tried this the to email was my sent from address, as was the sent to email, and it really gave no info other than a timestamp.

Also the <confirm> shows up on the other users device.

but handy I suppose

with a delivery receipt in normal outlook email, the user can have his laptop/desktop shut off but it will still give a receipt if it hits the mailbox. With the BB you know the user has actually received the email and that his/her device is on.

[NEXQUIN]

By any chance, does this feature not work with the 7520, because I've tried it a feww times and still no confirmation. Or, could it be that I'm looking for something on the device but should be looking in web client??

[ChrisLuce]

SAS,

I just tried to a YAHOO account and I got the same thing as you. I checked the message in Yahoo and it did show the "<confirm>" in the subjext line of Yahoo mail.

[yahtzee]

By any chance, does this feature not work with the 7520, because I've tried it a feww times and still no confirmation. Or, could it be that I'm looking for something on the device but should be looking in web client??

ive got a 7520 and it works fine....you have to type it with no spaces - <confirm>.

[ChrisLuce]

yahzee,

So you are saying that it shoudl look like this?

someone@<hidden>
Subject: test<conform>

[yahtzee]

yahzee,

So you are saying that it shoudl look like this?

someone@<hidden>
Subject: test<conform>

no - it should look like this

someone@<hidden>
Subject: <confirm> test email

Message: This is a test.

[ChrisLuce]

yahazee,

AH, my bad. I was putting at the end. Thanks for the info.

[Dawg]

works great
Your message:

TO: XXXXX@<hidden>
SENT: Sat May 14 11:24:11 2005
SUBJECT: <confirm> test

has been delivered to the recipient's BlackBerry Handheld.

[ChrisLuce]

Hmmmmm, maybe it is an issue on the AT&T side. It is not working for me. This is what it looks like in the message.

To: mr_cluce@<hidden>
Subject: <confirm> Testing
From: "Chris Luce" <cluce@<hidden>> Add to Address Book
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 15:28:01 +0000 GMT
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

[yahtzee]

Hmmmmm, maybe it is an issue on the AT&T side. It is not working for me. This is what it looks like in the message.

To: mr_cluce@<hidden>
Subject: <confirm> Testing
From: "Chris Luce" <cluce@<hidden>> Add to Address Book
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 15:28:01 +0000 GMT
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Could be BES only....stand by....double checking now...

[ChrisLuce]

yahtzee,

hmm, I didn't think about that. I am not on a BES so that may be the deal.

[DavidE]

I don't think it's related to BES. I'm not on BES, and it worked for me.

DavidE
www.davidenglish.com

[litfoo]

Is there any way of setting this as a default or do I have to manually precede all e-mails I send with the <confirm> to receive the delivery reports?

also, i just sent a message from my 02 7230 and the <confirm> showed in my mozilla e-mail app. have not received a delivery report as yet


cheers,

litfoo

[jdh]

Is there any way of setting this as a default or do I have to manually precede all e-mails I send with the <confirm> to receive the delivery reports?
You could create an auto-text entry, which would at least save you the trouble of having to type the entire tag in each time.

[litfoo]

jdh,

thanks for that. I have set up yhr auto-text..

why does the recipient see the <confirm> in their subject line?

litfoo

[dkmadrid]

Wow, works great! Thanks for the tip.

[jacobsaa]

Pretty cool

[coreyg510]

I tried it all three ways:

<confirm> test email
<confirm>test email
test email<confirm>

still a no go with BWC Cingular bb7290

[teskew]

Still doesn't work for me! I must be doing something wrong!!

[teskew]

Ok, the only way this works for me is if I'm on my desktop computer sending the <confirm> email - it doesn't work from my BB.

Does it only work if you send to a BB acct?

[rsun]

Great trick! Anyone know any other other secrets? :-)

[rcbjr]

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry7290/4.0.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 UP.Link/1.1)

Apparently this only works when sent to a BlackBerry. I can't say about sending to an email address that syncs wirelessly through a BES, I don't have an email address for anyone using BES. Here are the results of my limited testing using BWC/BIS:

My BB to my BB.
Confirmation received,

Outlook @<hidden> work to my BB. Confirmation received,

My BB to Outlook @<hidden> work Confirmation not received.

Hope this helps.
Rcbjr

[rsun]

Yes, makes sense, since this is delivery confirmation that a message was sent to a BlackBerry, makes sense if the message isn't sent to a BlackBerry, nothing would come back.

[teskew]

Yup, Richard I think that's it...

[Mark Rejhon]

Good tip. I have added this tip to the Geek Tips section of "BlackBerry Tips, Tricks, and Keypress Shortcuts (http://www.blackberryforums.com/showthread.php?p=38)"