1. A method for communicating delivery confirmation information related to received messages by a recipient's mobile device, the method comprising: receiving a message in the recipient's mobile device identifying a device coupled to the recipient's mobile device via a short-range wireless communication technology; obtaining from the received message instructions for rendering the received message on at least one of the recipient's mobile device or the device coupled to the recipient's mobile device via the short-range wireless communication technology, wherein obtaining from the received message instructions for rendering the received message on at least one of the recipient's mobile device or the device coupled to the recipient's mobile device via the short-range wireless communication technology includes decoding the received message to obtain metadata indicating the device on which the sender desires the received message to be rendered and at least one of sound or visual message contents; determining whether the device indicated in the metadata is coupled to the recipient's mobile device via the short-range wireless communication technology; providing the at least one of sound or visual message contents to the device indicated in the metadata in response to determining that the device is coupled to the recipient's mobile device; generating a delivery confirmation message reporting whether the received message was delivered and, if the received message was delivered, a manner in which the received message was delivered; and transmitting the delivery confirmation message to a sender of the received message.