Asking for a receipt for e-mail

Hello, I would like to know how to send an e-mail and ask for a receipt so I know they have received the mail.
I have running mail version 1.3.11
Thank you.

is there a Universal feature which, regardless of recipients mail app,
that will allow the ability of the sender to be notified when mail is read?
There isn't any email client that provides a read receipt without the recipient's knowledge when requested by the sender of a message and you wouldn't want to use an email client that does so. I certainly wouldn't and if there was an email client that did so, a spammer could request a read receipt and if a spam message received on such an email client was opened/read, the recipient would be alerting the spammer that his/her email address is valid causing even more spam to be received.
This is a basic outlook feature?
As with other email clients that support requesting a read receipt for sent messages and providing a read receipt when opening a received message that includes a read receipt request by the sender, Outlook includes 3 settings.
Provide a read receipt when opening all messages that include a read receipt request.
Don't provide a read receipt when opening any message that includes a read receipt request.
Be prompted when opening any message that includes a read receipt request. The prompt is provide it or don't provide it on a per message basis.
I use Windows Outlook at work and I don't request a read receipt for sent messages nor do I provide a read receipt when opening any message that includes a read receipt request since I consider this an invasion of my privacy.

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Keep being asked for password: Mail Help unhelpful

Last week I had to trash my keychains/passwords on the recommendation of Skype help. It solved my immediate problem but now I get asked for a password every time I launch Mail.
I've tried Mail help and got the following advice:
"To change the keychain lock settings:
Open Keychain Access, located in Applications/Utilities (or click the link provided on this page).
Select your login keychain, choose Edit > "Change Settings for Keychain 'login'."
To reduce the number of requests for your keychain password, deselect the option for the number of minutes of inactivity before the keychain is locked, or increase the number of minutes. You can also deselect "Lock when sleeping" option."
Trouble is, I see nothing that resembles a "login keychain".
Is the above the advice I need. If yes, what/where is my login keychain; if no, what now?

Thanks for the feedback. This means the login keychain itself was "there", just inaccessible for some reason. The actual keychains are stored in one of the following locations, depending on their applicability:
/System/Library/Keychains/
/Library/Keychains/
~/Library/Keychains/
login, in particular, being different for each user, is stored in ~/Library/Keychains/.
On my system, the System keychain is stored in /Library/Keychains/. Do you see a System keychain in more than one of the aforementioned locations? Maybe that's the reason you see more than one instance of it in Keychain Access.
I'm wondering now if the problem was just that there was something wrong with the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.keychainaccess.plist preferences file. Guess we'll never know what happened here.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user's home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the file path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the file path there.

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IMAP (Incoming Mail Server) information:
Server name: imap.mail.me.com
SSL Required: Yes
Port: 993
Username: [email protected] (use your @me.com address from your iCloud account)
Password: Your iCloud password
SMTP (outgoing mail server) information:
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SSL Required: Yes
Port: 587
SMTP Authentication Required: Yes
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hi i need the email of the apple store chicago michigan avenue.
is to ask for a copy of the sales receipt from an iPad and I do not find your mail from anywhere
thank you very much
my mail is [email protected]

The one on North Michigan Av. ? You'll have to call, I couldn't find an email address.
Apple Store
North Michigan Avenue
679 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 529-9500

Asking for receipt of read mail

Can anyone tell me whether it is possible to ask for a receipt indicating that the person to whom u have sent mail has read it? I cannot seem to find this feature in the Mail program.
Thank you

It is a hidden feature, and comes with several warnings:
use at your own risk
once you set it, it applies to all messages until you unset it
it can only be done from the terminal, with mail shut down
using it does not guarantee a response - some mail clients will ignore it, and many mail users will have told their clients to ignore it
In Terminal enter the following text, keeping all quotes and spaces exactly:
defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{"Disposition-Notification-To"="you@address";}'
(of course, using your correct email address instead of "you@address")
To turn it off:
defaults delete com.apple.mail UserHeaders
AK

Old Mail configuration asking for receipts

Back in 2006, using my G4, I had found someone's method of configuring Mail to request a delivery receipt from each recipient. The configuration instructions are pasted here:
+• Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/)+
+• Enter the folowoing text (make sure to keep all quotes exactly as is!)+
+defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{"Disposition-Notification-To"="your@address";}'+
+(of course, using your correct email address instead of "your@address")+
+• All future messages sent with Mail will now include the Disposition-Notification-To header which is the one asking for a return receipt.+
+If you wish to turn off this feature in the future, type the following in the Terminal:+
+defaults delete com.apple.mail UserHeaders+
I had turned off the feature long ago. After my G4's power supply failure three weeks ago and the moving of all my files over to the MacBook, someone just alerted me that Mail is requesting delivery receipts. I tried typing into Terminal the instructions for turning the feature off, but Terminal states the UserHeader instruction was never given (and, because this is a different computer, Terminal is correct.)
Does anyone know what I can do to get Mail to stop requesting receipts?
Thanks!

Good thought. I had done a global search for 'UserHeader' and the word 'receipt,' but 'UserHeader' didn't turn up anywhere on the drive, and 'receipt' showed up only in places we would expect. But I then opened the Mail.plist file to be sure, and neither 'UserHeader' nor 'receipt' was in there.
I sent a test email from that account to another email account I use and no receipt request was generated. And I'm still waiting to hear back from others I asked. But the strange thing is, this person who alerted me about it said that the requests are being sent back to the email address I was using back in 2006 but haven't used for over a year. So, something old is still lurking, either on my computer or his. Very weird. I just hope I'm not ******* off other folks with those annoying requests!
Thanks for your help! I'm all ears if you have any more ideas.

My i cloud account is locked, the e mail address I used can no longer be accessed and when I click the option to use the questions to get a new password it asked for my ID number, when I input that it tells me its wrong! now what?

I forgot my i cloud password
The e mail address i used can no longer be accessed
To access the questions way, it requires my ID number
when I input my ID number the response is ' ID number incorrect! even though I am inputting there correct number
is there any way i can resolve this?

Contact the Apple account security team for your country and ask for assistance resetting the password: Apple ID: Contacting Apple for help with Apple ID account security.

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--Colleen
Mac mini G4 1.25 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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Went to Mail Preferences/ Accounts/ Account Information/ Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)/ Edit SMTP Server List...
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IOs 8.1 Mail app keeps asking for iCloud password

Since the update to iOs 8.1 i have a problem with my mailbox.
Every time i want to create a new mail, it asks me for my iCloud password.
This happens on my iPhone (6) and iPad (Air) while im in my iCloud inbox, Gmail inbox, or just the general overview.
Whenever i press the create new mail icon it will ask for my iCloud password.
- When i give the iCloud password (correct one) it wont ask for it again in the next 15 mins
- When i dont give the iCloud password (cancel) i can just send mails but it will ask for the password whenever i create a new mail.
What i did:
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That's interesting that it didn't start to happen after a while on your work iPad. I just tried my iPad this evening and I'm getting the same iCloud password popup message when I try to create a new mail or enable "Contacts Only' in Airdrop.
I still think it's a problem with our iCloud accounts. Some flag in the system isn't set or something for some reason. I don't even have mail switched on in my iCloud account so there is no valid reason why Mail.app would try and authenticate to iCloud just because we create a new email.
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Not able to open mail from my mac, gmail repeatedly asking for password. but using same password able to open gmail on safari

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okay well they got me to take out some .plist files to see if that would help it didn't. I'm not sure what ones that they deleted for my self maybe someone here would be abel to tell you what ones to take out but didn't work the one that came close to working was this going into keychain and deleting the account(s) then reading them again.
if you are to do this please back up first with Time Machine. You can do this with a usb drive.
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Okay so then press cmd and space bar at the same time then type 'keychain access' into the search then click on 'keychain access'
once it is open go to the top of the window and put your email address that you are having problems with.
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right click and delete them. make sure not to touch any other files that dont say them things on them.
Once you have done this quit keychain access and then restart the computer, once the computer is restarted go back to system preferences and internet accounts and re-add the account.
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