Read Receipt for Email using Java Mail

hi,
i am trying to implement requesting the read receipts for the email sent out.
for that i got some information that by setting header "Disposition-Notification-To" and the value should be "<Destination email address>"
should i need to make any changes in the mailing server or i can handle it in my code to save it in the database.
can some one please guide me so that i can implement this.
Thank You

Hi Bshannon,
From your response, I understand that setting Disposition-Notification does not give a complete result for the read-receipts (We do not receive notifications from all domains, I tried gmail, yahoo, and other domains as well).
Since your reply was sent 2 years ago, I would like to know any new solution found to get a complete read-receipt notifications from all domains?.
Your response would be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Stalin R

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