Is there a way in ASP.NET (VB) to determine whether an email was sent successfully, whether it bounced, etc?

Thanks in advance,
Bryant

Only by having it check an email account... you can do it manually (not much fun and I don't have much experience with that, but ASP.NET is fully capable of doing so) or by using a third party app (dll file) to check the account(s).

I have already set something up that does that. But it only works if they view it in HTML mode. Read up on HTTP modules for asp.net If you are working with a large email list, I recommend bbounce. www.bbounce.com It will search your Pop3 email account to and determine what is a hard bounce, then allows you to download a list of the bounce logs ( very nice ), or it can automatically call a script on your server, so that you can handle it as you wish from there.

I did some searching and I found the link I originally read that taught me how to do this
http://www.aspnetemail.com/samples/emailtracker/default.aspx

We have about 2000 emails in our list, and my client loves how he can login to see how exactly
how many people have read the email he sends out. For those people who only see the text of
the email, and don't allow the pictures to load it still doesn't work, but for users on hotmail, yahoo, and other free email accounts it works great, for the images load automatically when they view the email.

Do you know of something similar in ColdFusion?

Sorry man, I'm just an ASP.NET guy. When I first pushed myself beyound simple Perl scripts for submit forms, I picked ASP.NET as my server-sided technology of choice. Plus I save $8 a month on my hosting . I like my Serversided technologies like I like my women, cheap and fast.
Heh