E-mail Read Receipt

Hi, Sometimes I want to send an important e-mail and I would like to know if the recipient has received or at least looked at my e-mail. Is there a receipt option? I have been through the user manual for mail trying various key words and I am not finding it....Thanks
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  • Mail read/ receipt option.....

    hello , just read ur helpful post, but really looking for a mail program that can offer i read/received confirmation tool......any idea where i can find it,,,,,,,,,,,bizarre that mail on MBA does NOT offer this option that's quite common on windows .........thanks for ur help.....

    bizarre that mail on MBA does NOT offer this option that's quite common on windows
    "Common on Windows" meaning "included in Microsoft's e-mail clients?" Okay. Commonly used by Windows users? No, I don't think so.
    It's important to note that:
    1) Most e-mail clients either don't support sending read receipts or don't send them by default.
    2) Many (most?) people using clients that will send read receipts don't turn them on for some very good reasons (security, privacy, etc).
    For these reasons, it's important to understand that not receiving a read receipt tells you absolutely nothing about whether the message was read or not. In addition, receiving a read receipt is not a guarantee that the message was actually read and understood... people often glance at an e-mail and then put it aside, meaning to act on it later. Thus, is the information a read receipt is able to give you actually worth having? In what way will it make your life easier or get your work done faster? For the most part, it won't affect your workflow at all, so why bother with it?
    As my wife the doctor would say, if the results of a test won't change the treatment, what's the point of putting the patient through the discomfort involved?

  • Mail read receipt

    How can I activate "read receipt" as with Outlook?
    Luís

    luiscadeco wrote:
    How can I activate "read receipt" as with Outlook?
    Luís
    I misread your post so ignore all below the next sentance. Mail does not include read receipt functionality, for good reason.
    --- Ignore what follows. It does not address what the poster asked ; ---
    In my Outlook 2007 the settings for read receipts are here: In Outlook > Tools > Options > Email Options > Tracking Options
    But read receipts, either requesting or responding to are never a good idea. It is totally up to the recipient if they provide a read receipt. Most email clients, your Outlook included, allow you to set the client to never respond to a read receipt. This is for security and privacy reasons. As to requesting a receipt. It is of little value for you to request a receipt given that most email users have set their clients to never respond. So even if you request a receipt you still won't know in most cases if the recipient read the email or just ignored your request.
    From a personal perspective, it is no one's business other than mine if or when I read my email. So don't send me a read receipt request because it will be ignored.

  • E-mail read receipts - how to make them optional

    Hi,
    Is it possible to turn off "read-receipt" by default, or else to be asked, prior to such receipt being sent, for an activesync based e-mail account?
    When using the e-mail account from my (work) laptop, Exchange read receipts are 'off', always. When reading any mail 'first' on the Q10 though, then any read receipt requested by the sender is sent, automatically.
    I cannot find any (obvious) setting on the handset to toggle read receipts on/off. 
    (I imagine this is BB10, rather than handset specific?)
    Thanks.
    AW

    Hi, any answer on this?
    270 views and no answer? I'd also like to change this default behavior.
    Thanks.
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  • Setting mail read receipt

    Hello,
    I'm trying to send a msg with read receipt but in mail theres no option for that. I've googled on the subject, find some information, but i'm not sure that is completely correct.
    Anyone of you guys have tried to work this out?
    Thanks for your time and help.
    Cheers

    Whatever you found is likely correct.
    Mail does not support read receipts, I imagine because it is a stupid concept.
    You can set up Mail to always add a custom header that requests a read receipt. There is no way to set that up on a per email basis. It is all or nothing.
    Why is it a stupid concept you might ask? Because read receipts depend on the destination email client to handle them (Mail does not), and they depend on your recipient allowing them to be sent. I believe all email clients are now set up with automatic response turned off, if it exists at all. So, you not getting a read receipt is completely useless. You have no idea if the email has not been read, or the person you sent it to doesn't allow responses or if their email client even knows what to do with the read receipt.
    Also, spammers have co-opted the read receipt to validate their email lists. Send a read receipt and get a response = valid email address to sell.
    Instead of trying to sneak in a read receipt on someone, politely request in the email itself notification that they have read your email as it is very important to you for some reason.

  • Mail Read Receipt Issue I Don't See Addressed

    I have a company e-mail account that I use for work along with other accounts that are all in my Mail client. I use my MacBook Pro and my iPhone to send and receive mail. Everything works fine.
    My employer has recently asked that I have a return receipt function turned on so that he can know or other people at our office who send me messages can know when I get these messages. I tried and explained before that because I'm not using Windows and Outlook like all of them that I can't enable that feature. Apparently now he wants that changed and wants me to use outlook. This is a big pain because I'm used to easily using Mail to manage everything and don't want to have to use parallels everytime I check my work e-mail. Is there anytype of fix that I could do that would give him confirmation everytime I get an email from him as opposed to actually having to boot up windows everytime I need to check an email.
    I know you can do the terminal command to request a return receipt but all I'm concerned with is sending one to him when I get an email from him.
    Thanks,
    Joe.
    Message was edited by: asentimentalsong

    paste the following into AppleScript Editor and save it somewhere.
    <pre style="
    font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
    font-size: 10px;
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 5px;
    border: 1px solid #000000;
    width: 720px;
    color: #000000;
    background-color: #ADD8E6;
    overflow: auto;"
    title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
    using terms from application "Mail"
    on perform mail action with messages selectedMsgs
    repeat with msg in selectedMsgs
    set theSubject to subject of msg
    set theSender to extract name from sender of msg
    set theAddress to extract address from sender of msg
    set theDate to date sent of msg
    tell application "Mail"
    set nowDate to current date
    set theBody to "Your message" & return & return & " Re: " & theSubject & return & "Sent: " & theDate & return & return & "was received and read " & nowDate & ". Thank you." & return
    set newMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:"Read: " & theSubject, content:theBody & return & return, visible:true}
    tell newMessage
    make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {name:theSender, address:theAddress}
    end tell
    send newMessage
    end tell
    end repeat
    end perform mail action with messages
    end using terms from</pre>
    then make your rule as follows.
    set it to apply to all messages and in the action set it to run the above script.
    it will send an acknowledgment message indicating the time and the message subject received.

  • Exchange Read Receipts

    I think the answer is no, but I wanted to check here anyway. Can you do "Read Receipts" using Apple Mail with an Exchange account. Thanks.
    Rob

    I don't think it has changed in SL, but this is the way it was:
    There are ways to add the header to a Mail message, but Mail doesn't respond at all to read receipts sent by other servers. If you google for Mail read receipt, you'll find a way to enable the header to send read receipts.

  • I use Mac Mail. How do I set up an email to get a delivery or read receipt?

    I use Mac Mail. How do I set up an email to get a delivery or read receipt? In other words, I want to receive automated confirmation that the email was either delivered, opened, or both -- which you can do in Outlook. I was not able to find this option in the Mail menu.

    Unfortunately OS X Mail does not offer this feature as far as I know. With Apple failing to offer that feature up until now I highly doubt it'll happen in the future :/

  • Read receipts in Receiver mail

    Hi All,
    If we were sending out a mail from PI, is there any option that we can configure a read receipt?
    There is an option for delivery acknowledgements, but is it possible to configure read receipts at the adapter level?
    Do suggest some alternatives if any.
    Regards,
    shabz

    >
    Prateek Raj Srivastava wrote:
    > Delivery acknowledgement's technical name is THeaderDISPOSITION-NOTIFICATION-TO.
    > Disposition Notification is commonly called as the Read Receipt which you require. It is an adapter specific attribute. Have you tried configuring it?
    >
    > Regards,
    > Prateek
    are you sure its not the delivery acknowledgment? delivery acks are different from read receipts

  • Read receipt in snow leopard mail...

    I am relatively new to mac and mail.  can anyone please help me with delivery receipts and read receipts like one can get from those awful windows applications?

    I think, sometimes Apple should be a little less educative. Their bossy attitude "If we don't put it in, then you don't need it...“ has proven them wrong a few times. Remember "copy/paste" on the first iOS ?
    Rather then adding a lot of fancy stuff like "dialogues" in Mail, it can't be that complicated to add a little box somewhere next to signature to request a read-receipt. I just upgraded to Lion and I'm amazed that this feature (because it is a feature, never mind if receivers are confirming or not) is again missing.
    Its often good to know that your mail has reached destination, especially if you attach important documents to it - in which case the receiver will accept to confirm.
    Just for this feature, I'm once again obliged to keep Thunderbird next to Mail.

  • Generare e-mail status by tracking Delivery and Read Receipt?Challenge

    Hi,
    I got bit confused, How can I came to know that my e-mail has been successfully sent or not without opening my inbox.
    Am sending 50,000 mails per day by using java mail sending program, while sending I am enabled Delivery and Read receipt and I saved message-id in database and I got that receipt back to my inbox.
    Then I am reading my Inbox using another java program based on message-id concept, And also I need to parse the body of the mail to update the reason if any message failed.
    Here my Inbox received more than 1 lac mails per day as receipts. Because am sending 50,000 mails, So, I got 2 receipt mails for 1 mail, totally 50,000*2=1lac mails in Inbox. My problem is, my reading Inbox java program not able read all 1lac mails at one day. It just reading 5,000 mails per day. When my next day mail sending process started, again i am getting another 1 lac receipts.
    Since I am not able to read and delete the receipts completely, mail counts in my inbox getting accumulated. So, I got stuck, How can I do this?
    If anybody have any other ideas please share with me.
    Already I surfed on net lot, but I can`t find solution for this concept.
    Thanks in advance.

    I think the big question is why can you not read and remove the mail more quickly? What limits you to reading only 5,000 messages per day?
    Also, is this about Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server (formerly known as Sun Java Messaging Server)?
    If so, please include the output from the "imsimta version" command.
    If not, you probably should ask in the JavaMail forum: JavaMail

  • Read-receipt of mail

    how do I get the read-receipt of mail

    You don't. Mail doesn't support read receipts.
    You can add them to every email you send by editing the default headers:
    http://email.about.com/od/macosxmailtips/qt/et_request_recp.htm
    Note that is an all or nothing modification. You can pick which messages send read receipt requests.
    You can always just ask in the body of the email for the recipient to please respond as their activities are very important for you to monitor.

  • Is there way to get read receipts in mail and do you get non deliverable notifications??

    is there way to get read receipts in mail and do you get non deliverable notifications??

    I'm a little fuzzy on your question.
    If you are trying to "Bounce" and email, I regret to inform you that Apple removed that feature a few years ago.  There are other email programs available that have this capability.

  • Delivery confirmation & read-receipt in Mail?

    Is it possible to obtain a delivery confirmation & read-receipt in Mail?

    No, it is not.  The OS X Mail application does not offer this functionality.

  • How Request Read Receipts in Mac OS X Mail?

    defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{"Disposition-Notification-To" = "Name <email@address>"; }' not work.
    it says
    No such file or directory
    -bash: }’: command not found
    what can I do? What name is this name?

    babowa wrote:
    Since Mail does not support read receipts, I wonder if any workaround would actually work?
    That used to work to send read receipts, but I don't know if it still does. The failures the OP posted indicate a malformed command, not that it won't still work.

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