First viewing of an email question

6 Nov 2007 9:04 PM

Tom Bradstreet

We are using MS Office Outlook 2003 and Exchange 6.5.
Outlook is installed on an XP SR 2.
Is there any way to find out when a message in Outlook was first viewed?

Thanks
Tom

6 Nov 2007 9:38 PM

Mark Arnold [MVP]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:04:02 -0800, Tom Bradstreet
<TomBradstr***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>We are using MS Office Outlook 2003 and Exchange 6.5.
>Outlook is installed on an XP SR 2.
>Is there any way to find out when a message in Outlook was first viewed?
>
>Thanks
>Tom

Don't think there's a way to tell when it was viewed at all, be it the
first or any subsequent times.

6 Nov 2007 10:12 PM

Tom Bradstreet

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"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:04:02 -0800, Tom Bradstreet
> <TomBradstr***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >We are using MS Office Outlook 2003 and Exchange 6.5.
> >Outlook is installed on an XP SR 2.
> >Is there any way to find out when a message in Outlook was first viewed?
> >
> >Thanks
> >Tom
>
> Don't think there's a way to tell when it was viewed at all, be it the
> first or any subsequent times.
>
Hi Mark,

Thanks for the quick response.
Are you sure there are no log files on the server or the PC that records
when an email is viewed? It is expremely important that I find if there is
any possibility of this being done.

Thanks
Tom

6 Nov 2007 10:42 PM

Mark Arnold [MVP]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 14:12:00 -0800, Tom Bradstreet
<TomBradstr***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

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>
>
>"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:04:02 -0800, Tom Bradstreet
>> <TomBradstr***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> >We are using MS Office Outlook 2003 and Exchange 6.5.
>> >Outlook is installed on an XP SR 2.
>> >Is there any way to find out when a message in Outlook was first viewed?
>> >
>> >Thanks
>> >Tom
>>
>> Don't think there's a way to tell when it was viewed at all, be it the
>> first or any subsequent times.
>>
>Hi Mark,
>Thanks for the quick response.
>Are you sure there are no log files on the server or the PC that records
>when an email is viewed? It is expremely important that I find if there is
>any possibility of this being done.
>
>Thanks
>Tom

You can't use message tracking because that only goes as far as
delivery to the destination server and nothing gets logged in the
Application event log.

Hopefuly someone will come through with something but I haven't seen
anything ever for this.