How to Request Read Receipts in Mac OS X Mail

Hi
Would like to be able to know when the people I send email to actual read that email I send them. Is it possible to setup a option in mail so you get a receipt from the person who reads your email.
Thanks

Mail doesn't support read receipts. But you can do an "all or nothing" deal using Terminal:
http://email.about.com/od/macosxmailtips/qt/et_request_recp.htm

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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.

As in the "Mail" request read receipt message?

As in the "Mail" request read receipt message Mac OS 10.6.8?

TaoChitpol wrote:
By the way, the problem happens with the account of MS Exchange service, I don't know if this is the cause of the problem.
I think yes. The encoding is being corrupted somewhere, probably Exchange. There is nothing you can change on the iPad other than the OS languagel, to see if that helps. You can also tell Apple at
http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Read receipts in Mac mail.

I'll prefix this with the fact that I'm a total Macbook and Yosemite newb. As in I have not used a mac since 1992.
I thought I had found an article on how to send and receive read receipts in Mac mail, but after searching again, all I found was some obscure comments that read receipts were really not necessary, so it was not a big deal, and another article that showed how to create rules via the unix console...not really what I was looking for. I just was wondering if there is not a setting I am missing? Business people DO need, as a matter of doing business, require read receipts, for obvious reasons. If you are not in business or government this whole thread will be baffling and boring...sorry.
Finally , if not, will read receipts from gmail , show up in Mac mail if it is set up? ...or I would be just better to wash my hands of Mac mail, and use my Gmail, and if so, is there a way to do this...an extension perhaps, in Safari?
Thanks for any and all help.
Dave.

Rodolfo,
I guess you are missing my somewhat sarcastic sense of humour, and for that, I apologize.
Of course OS X can get viruses, malware and pesky adware. I was merely poking fun, at those, who are no so technically inclined, and tend to just "drink the koolaid" regardless of the established facts and body of evidence. I am acutely aware which operating systems are vulnerable and why. In my over 20 years of using computers for work and play, in my experience, UNIX has been the most secure...which is why it is the choice of governments' world-wide, and the least was WIN95-98. I had no virus' or malware at all with Win7...using MaCaffe, MalwareBytes, and SuperAdBlocker (which is a Chrome extension which seems to work fine on OS X) And no they did not slow down my machines (Norton did...very slow) Hackers find no challenge in writing for only 9% ( OS X ) of the units out there, as the 90% is a much bigger, and more lucrative target. It has nothing to do with the inherant inability for OS X to get viruses, malware or adware.
I am optimistic for the future of OS X, as it is slowly gathering steam, and garnering lots of attention from other platform users.
The biggest danger any any OS is smugness.
Dave

How to Verifying Store Receipts for Mac

I don't know how to verifying store receipts for mac.
When and Where to check verifying store receipts?
This is my code. Is it correct ? and Where to check receipts? and how to verifying store receipts?
Please help me.
1 .
if (   [SKPaymentQueue canMakePayments] )
2. SKProductsRequest *request = [[SKProductsRequest alloc] initWithProductIdentifiers:[NSSet setWithObject:@"com.mac.point500"]];
   request.delegate=self;
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3.
-(void)productsRequest:(SKProductsRequest *)request didReceiveResponse:(SKProductsResponse *)response{
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   NSLog(@"Description : %@", product.localizedDescription);
   NSLog(@"Price : %@", product.price);
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- (void)paymentQueue:(SKPaymentQueue *)queue updatedTransactions:(NSArray *)transactions{
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            case SKPaymentTransactionStatePurchasing:
                       break;
            case SKPaymentTransactionStatePurchased:
                  [self purchasedTransaction:transaction];
                                             break;
            case SKPaymentTransactionStateFailed:
                  [self failedTransaction:transaction];
                                             break;
            case SKPaymentTransactionStateRestored:
                  [self restoreTransaction:transaction];
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                                             break;
5.
-(void)purchasedTransaction:(SKPaymentTransaction *)transaction
     m_point += 500 ; // purchase success.
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6.
- (void)paymentQueue:(SKPaymentQueue *)queue removedTransactions:(NSArray *)transactions

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How to do read receipts

I can find ways to do for mac os 10.3 and so on, but not on 10.4. I am using 10.4.6 and really need to have a way of having read receipts to work. I am on about getting them not sending them back to others emails. I want to mark emails to have read receipts - is this possible in mail?

There is a way to convince Mail in Tiger to always request a delivery notification (if the recipients' mail client supports that feature and the recipient has not turned them off)
Note: the following relies no undocumented features of Mail and I don't take any responsability if things break for you...
• Quit Mail
• 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
Andreas

How to ask a receipt acknowledgement to a sent mail

Is an option for mails to get an automatic receipt acknowledgement to a sent mail (when it is read by the recipient) ?

That depends on which webmail service you're using. Many don't offer the option to request a read receipt (e.g. Outlook.com, Yahoo! Mail, [https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1385059?hl=en Gmail]).
You can request read receipts if you use an e-mail client like [http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/ Thunderbird].
* [[Configuration Options for Sending Messages]]

TS3276 How do I request Read Receipts in Mail?

Other mail programmes like Thunderbird allow me to request a read receipt so that I know the email has been received and read. I connot find this useful function in Apple's Mail. Am I just missing it?

See here:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050512155856402
There's every likelihood that your recipients' email clients are configured to ignore receipt requests, though. There's nothing you can do on your end to guarantee that your recipients will even see the requests, much less respond to them.

HT5557 I downloaded a book to my Mac and would like to read it there due to the larger screen. The book was transferred to my iPhone which is too small to read comfortably. How can I read on the Mac?

How do I read books on my Mac? I downloaded several books to my Mac but they went to my iPhone whose screen is not big enough to see more than a few lines.

Thanks. Doesn't make much sense. Just got done reading my first and last book on the iPhone. I think the font/glare changed my prescription. Guess I'll be going back to paper.

How to disable read receipts

I have just realized that my iPhone responds to read receipt requests by happily confirming when I've opened the message. I find that both a privacy invasion and a security issue, as well as something that contributes to spam increase. Is there a way to turn it off?

This is a more serious issue because any junk mail using randomly generated e mail addresses is automatically getting confirmation that it has chanced upon a valid address. This single issue has stopped me ordering over 1000 iphones for my company.

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How do I get a read receipt with this email service

If you're looking for a confirmation of a read email you sent it aint there. (Mail).

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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.

Hi EJP,
step 2: Taking total inbox length using message.length
The message count is available via Folder.getMessageCount*().//ok I will try this one.*
step 3: In for loop, for(i=0; i < = n; i+){+ //--here we are getting mails one by one
That should be i < n, not i <= n. *//here I was wrongly specified, I used i<n only.*
step 5: In that mail body we are searching our own unique keyword(which we set for our unique mail reference)
Searching how?
In order to find the keyword, we are getting entire text/plain mail body using below method,
//To get body plain/text body part start here
     public static void getTextPlainBodyPart(Part p) throws Exception {
          if (p.isMimeType("text/plain")) {
               if (!(showStructure) && !(saveAttachments)){
                   lstr = (String)p.getContent();
          }else if (p.isMimeType("multipart/*")) {
             Multipart mp = (Multipart)p.getContent();
             level++;
              int count = mp.getCount();
              for (int i = 0; i < count; i++){
             getTextPlainBodyPart(mp.getBodyPart(i));
              level--;
//To get body plain/text body part end hereAbove method will return entire body of the mail in one string variable, Eg: String mailBody;(*mailBody variable contains entire body)*
Then using mailBody variable we are searching our own keyword(which we set for our unique mail reference while sending mail) using below technique,
if(lstr.indexOf("!$*#*$") != -1 && lstr.lastIndexOf("$*#*$!") != -1){
KeyWord = lstr.substring(lstr.indexOf("!$*#*$")+3,lstr.lastIndexOf("$*#*$!"));
//to get reason alone
if(lstr.contains("Reason:")){
     Pattern p = Pattern.compile("Reason:\\s([^\\n])*");
Matcher m = p.matcher(lstr);
boolean result = m.find();
     while(result) {
        reason = m.group();
         result = m.find();
//System.out.println("Reason:>>>>"+reason);
}else{
     reason = "";
}After getting that keyword in KeyWord variable,
then we are updating our database using that KeyWord,(here we are using KeyWord variable in where condition in update query)
Note:_ KeyWord is nothing but, we were stored all our unique keyword against every mails while sending.So, If when get that keyword while reading the receipts,then we can update our table using that same keyword.
guide how can I do this effieciently. And if you any other new concept please share with me.
Thanks in advance..
Edited by: EJP on 17/03/2011 16:54: added code tags. Please use them. Code is 100% illegible otherwise.

How to get Read receipt in gmail app on iphone 4s?

I have gmail app on my iphone 4s but i do not get read receipt option while sending mail kindly advise

You can use 3rd party services to use read receipts with Gmail. Companies like ContactMonkey (www.contactmonkey.com) and Spypig offer email tracking for Gmail and Outlook. They're both pretty easy to use.
Happy tracking!

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

How can I read and work with the e-mail on one IMAC (running 10.7.3) from my MacPro Power PC5 (running 10.5.8)

I would like to be able to work the e-mails on my IMAC (Lion 10.7.3) from my Mac Pro Power PC5 (running Leopard 10.5.8). I want to be able to see all the folders and have actions show up on the other computer. In other words, if I delete the e-mail I want it to disappear in real time from the other computer. The same would be for moving messages in and out of different folders. Can this be done without setting a server? If not, then what server version could I install on the MacPro that would let me do this?

That is the way IMAP should work.
Like gMail or iCloud, both of which can be setup on both Macs...
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