Email viewing and Reports

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I am trying to find out if it is possible to use Access to create a Report of
who has viewed an email, and then update a report on a website.

For instance, having a data-base built with people who need to acknoweldge
an email, instead of having everybody respond to the email, Access will know
that the person has viewed it and send an update to a report that is on a
website so that all the information is in the same place, instead of having
another person to sit and wait for responces and then update a report by hand.
 
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I am trying to find out if it is possible to use Access to create a Report of
who has viewed an email, and then update a report on a website.
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It's normally not possible to do that.

The Outlook object model for example has a read attribute for mail items:

http://timothychenallen.blogspot.com/2008/08/outlook-vba-script-to-display-all.html

Depending to settings this may do it.
For instance, having a data-base built with people who need to acknoweldge
an email, instead of having everybody respond to the email, Access will know
that the person has viewed it and send an update to a report that is on a
website so that all the information is in the same place, instead of having
another person to sit and wait for responces and then update a report by hand.
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Viewing an e-mail is not reading nor understanding, so I consider this
as nonsense. The only thing you can tell from such an automatism is that
the mail arrived at the recipients client.

But this can be done by Outlook itself:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/192929


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