How to Get Delivery Confirmation From a BlackBerry

You can send an important email to someone's BlackBerry and never know if he ever received it. However, you can be notified instantly with delivery confirmation when the message reaches the recipient's inbox. This works when sending from a BlackBerry device to another BlackBerry device or from Outlook to a BlackBerry device.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Open a new email with your BlackBerry device or in Outlook.

2. Select who the email is going to from your contact list or type in a new address.

3. Type in a left arrow, "<", then "confirm", then a right arrow, ">", in the subject line. Verify in the BlackBerry subject line that the word "confirm" is bracketed by the left and right arrows.

4. Enter the subject of your email after the right-facing arrow.

5. Type your message and send as you normally would.

6. Receive a confirmation email on your BlackBerry device or in your Outlook mailbox when the message is delivered to the recipient's BlackBerry device.

Tips & Warnings

• This only works when you send the email is to a BlackBerry device from either a BlackBerry device or Outlook.
• Check if this works by performing these steps in an email to a friend that you can call. Or simply send a delivery confirmation email from your BlackBerry device to yourself on your own BlackBerry device.
• The recipient will not see arrows or the word "confirm" in the subject line.
• Remember that if an email has been delivered to a BlackBerry device, the recipient might not have opened or read it yet.