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| Thread ID: 49945 | 2004-10-05 19:55:00 | How to find out if an Xtra email address is still live? | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 278458 | 2004-10-05 19:55:00 | Hi Team I am getting no replies from a particular email address and I want to know if it is still in use. For reasons I'd rather not expand on here (but related to the user trying to avoid payment of an account), I can't phone the person to find out if my communications are being received. They are all sent "receipt-requested", but that is easy to block at the recipients end, as indeed I do myself when I believe the request to be intrusive. Before I waste half a day inside Xtra's automated telephone system, does anybody here know if they would be likely to respond favourably to a request to check the box for recent activity? The status of his email address is likely to be relevant to a "costs of recovery" argument at a Disputes Tribunal case, if it has to go that far. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 278459 | 2004-10-05 20:14:00 | Without a search warrant, I doubt if that info would be released. Its akin to asking if a telephone number has had any calls made from it. That info is only released at the request of the Police. Perhaps get the local chapter of a bikie gang to do the debt collection for you? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 278460 | 2004-10-05 20:46:00 | Actually, there is a way. Send an 8 MB attachment. If it does not bounce, then the next week, send it again. If it still does not bounce then either the maibox is being cleared, or the attachment is being deleted at webmail level. Either way, its an active mailbox if it does not get filled up? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 278461 | 2004-10-05 20:52:00 | I'd suggest your local Highway 61 Chapter could check this individual out for you ;) | Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 278462 | 2004-10-05 20:53:00 | > Perhaps get the local chapter of a bikie gang to do > the debt collection for you? Hmmm . . . . . . Not a bad idea! :D I used to know one or two bikies on a professional basis (mine, not theirs) and they were quite agreeable chaps when outside of their "professional" environment . On reflection, I may have answered my own question anyway, because the mail is not bouncing, ergo the box must be live and not full . So, the next questions are: Firstly, does anybody know the storage capacity limit on an Xtra mail box? . Secondly, (are you listening Winston?) does business email communication enjoy the same "presumed receipt, no excuse if you didn't read it" status as the Gummint's envelope & stamp version? Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 278463 | 2004-10-05 21:00:00 | > I'd suggest your local Highway 61 Chapter could check > this individual out for you ;) *Cough* He's a member of your profession Winston, may I quote you as offering this advice in my next missive on the evils of bludging off lesser mortals?:D Cheers Billy 8-{) :| Over ten years in business, only four defaulting clients, three of them lawyers. Boy, I can sure pick em! |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 278464 | 2004-10-05 21:06:00 | storage capacity of my xtra mailbox is 12000KB , maximum size for an incoming message 10000KB | KatiMike (242) | ||
| 278465 | 2004-10-05 21:26:00 | Remember to allow for the file overheads . 7 or 8 MB will usually top out the maximum (sometimes less) when encoding is added . Eudora is good like that, it reports the actual sent size . The mailboxes seem to look at that, and not the resulting file? And in addition to your comments Billy T, my only tardy payer ever was also a law firm . Had to threaten debt collection before the money came through . To be safe Billy T, you should scan a copy of the invoice at a high resolution . Can't be then said you were sending something irrelevant . |
godfather (25) | ||
| 278466 | 2004-10-05 21:51:00 | 8mb?! A B/W BMP @ 600dpi scan of the invoice should do the trick ;-) Its not uncommon for BMP's to get incredibly massive, very easily...... :p |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 278467 | 2004-10-05 21:53:00 | www.didtheyreadit.com this will tell you if the email was read, when and from what IP. should do the trick. you could send a copy of the invoice and see if it get read. you could also make a new hotmail account and send them another email that is not related to you to see if they read that, they might be avoiding your email but reading other stuff. |
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