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From BBgeeks: A Blackberry tip

Some people just aren’t good at returning emails.   The problem — and I’m sure this is true for a number of us — is that you check and read the email frequently, but rarely have time right then and there to respond. And when you do have time, the email is already marked as read, because it was opened, and it slips through the cracks.  Adding to my culpability,  people often say that the email must have gone to my spam folder or something, because I don’t remember seeing it.  If people use today’s quick tip, they might be able to call you out on that.

The screenshot to your right explains it all. Just press sym then press W to create the open bracket. Then type confirm. After that, presssym again and press S to close the brackets. Then proceed with your email as normal. When the recipient receives your email — that is, it appears on his BlackBerry smartphone — you will get an email in your own inbox letting you know.

There are a few specifics that go along with this:

• This only works with BlackBerry smartphones. If you send this to someone and the do not have a BlackBerry, or that email address is not connected to their BlackBerry, you will not get a delivery confirmation.
• The recipient will see the confirm tag in the subject line. Why RIM didn’t just automatically hide that, like an HTML tag, I have no idea. But that’s the deal.
• There are options in your Email Settings that control read and delivery receipts. But the other user can either turn those off on her own smartphone, or else refuse to send a read receipt. The recipient can do nothing when you use the confirm tag.