Mac Mail - Return Receipt function

How do I mark an email message 'Return Receipt' so that I know the recipient received my email?

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Does Mail (for Lion) have a return receipt function?

i was wondering whether Mail (for Lion) have a return receipt function. I've seen many negative answers, but they're all from 2007 and earlier. How can I configure for some of my messages to have return receipts?

chrisrdc wrote:
Yeah, I do have the home and student Office version, but the trial version for outlook included in the package does not include this feature. Is is available only with the "real"version?
I'm not sure there is a forum for Office for Mac Product Forums, I'd recommend posting there is no one here is able to help.

Mail - return receipt

Is there a way in mail to set up for a return receipt when the recipient either receives or reads the message sent to them? The mail box with the internet provider provides this functionality when I use their webmail application. The provider is FUSE with Cincinnati Bell

There's one third-party program I know of that works with Mail to provide this functionality - it's called "MailPriority":
http://home.tiscalinet.ch/david.frank/projects/mailpriority/
It works by setting the Disposition-Notification-To header (which you can do manually also). It's not fully functional, however, as described by the developer: "Sending receipt requests is not implemented yet (only requesting receipts from others)."
There may be other third-party solutions - you might try searching on the VersionTracker or MacUpdate websites.
You might also find this prior post helpful:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=713245#713245
Good luck!

Mac Mail Return Help

Can someone please explain to me what I can do to bring my MacMail back and functioning? I will only say that when I click on the icon I get this:
**You cannot use this version of the application Mail with this version of MAC OS X**
If you want more details please see my other post. Thanks.

It means you have an older version of Mail that's not compatible with the version of OS X that is installed. If you are running 10.5.8 as your profile states, then download and install the 10.5.8 Combo Updater. That should solve your problem.
Be sure the version of Mail you have is in the Applications folder.

Apple Mail and return receipts

Hi,
Since Apple Mail and Calendar in Mountain Lion appear work seamlessly with Exchange, I've dropped Outlook in favor of the native Apple apps. But the one problem I have is return-receipts. Our voice-mail system at work emails me voicemail messages and uses the return-receipt to indicate I've seen the message. That works perfectly on my iPhone and it worked in Outlook. I can't find any preference in Apple Mail to turn the return-receipt functionality on. I've also googled and I get lots of hits on how to get Apple Mail to request receipts but nothing on how to get Apple Mail to respond. Does anyone know how I can enable that functionality?
~ Rob

Maybe this thread will help or at least give you some information:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/7663259#7663259

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.
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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.

Return receipt plug in for Mac Mail software?

Return receipt for Mac OSX 10.4.6 build in email software “Mail” 2.0.7 (746.2/749.3) 2005 Apple Inc.
Is there a return receipt plug in for Mac Mail software? I want to know if my sent mail was received and know if the mail was opened.

Kboo,
in general not a good idea. This may cause loops with Out-of-Office responders and also not a very trustworthy confirmation.
Options are to use certified email servers as an intermediate (google to find many) or to request explicitly a written reply from the recipient.
See also this post (there are many more when you search here)
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=713245#713245

Mac mail search function is not working. Any search term returns all records.

Mac mail search function is not working. Any search term returns all records.

hi eric. many thanks.
i will have to read these links closer but what i meant to say is that the hard drive space that was being taken up seemed like it suddenly jumped way up because i had just gotten through a process in the last month where i am storing all my My Documents data on my Mac Pro. i am doing this in order to decide whether i should just keep it ALL on my Mac Pro and use ChronoSync to sync /some/ of it to my MBP.
so if i look in the Documents folder on my Mac Pro i have a ton of folders that i have created with a ton of data. if i look in the Documents folder on my MBP there are NO folders that have data in them that i created. there are other folders such as folders that various software created but what i mean to point out is that there was a LOT of available space on my HD until recently.
i am wondering if there is some way that running the Mail re-index (it then ran some kind of "Importing" routine) or by syncing my Photostream to the MBP caused a huge jump in data on this drive. if it is the photostream sync i can just take this off or see if it will sync more selectively. if it is something to do with mac mail jumping in size i am not sure why this would happen or what to do about it.
does that question make sense?
i mean, before i did these two operations my recollection is that i would have had 130 GB on the hard drive (really just guessing here) and now there is like 218 GB on the hard drive and i don't know where all this came from...

How can I obtain a return receipt using Mail?

I have never had to use a password as the administrator of my imac. I simply clicked OK without filling it in and it worked just fine. I downloaded Mavericks, and I was asked to enter the password as the administrator. I cannot do so. How do I fix this?

I'm confused. Your question has NOTHING to do with the subject title.
1) You cannot obtain a return receipt using Mail. That functionality does not exist.
2) If your admin password is blank, then just hit return. I cannot believe you have NEVER seen an administrator password prompt in normal use of the OS, unless you've only used OS X for an hour total.

Does Apple Mail have a "return receipt" feature similar to Outlook?

Does Apple Mail have a "return receipt" feature similar to Outlook?

No. But there are ways around it:
How to Request Read Receipts in Mac OS X Mail - About Email
Generate 'Read Receipts' in Mail.app - Mac OS X Hints
http://email.about.com/od/macosxmailtips/qt/et_request_recp.htm

Return Receipt in Mail

Hi. Am I missing out on a feature which allows us to request a return receipt whn received, read, etc? I could use it right now.
I hope that Leopard Mail will feature it.
Thanks.
MacBook Pro 2.16 Mac OS X (10.4.9) 2 gb ram

i have a follow up question. I continue to get return receipts from various recipients though i can't tell why. I've never used Terminal so I haven't entered any of that stuff. As others have noted, there's nothing in Mac MAil that seems to be doing this. Do you have any ideas why I get return receipts from all these people? I'd really rather not.

Messages unintentionally being sent in mac mail when I press return or close spell check.

Since upgrading to Mavericks 10.9.2, I have an issue where my messages in Mac Mail would be sent prematurely. I wasn't sure what was going on and it was getting quite frustrating. I soon realized it was when I hit the return key and/or finish spell check. I never experienced this before and its annoying as all heck. Is this a bug or a new function in Mac Mail? If so, is there a fix?

Try going to the Mail/Preferences/Accounts and deselect 'Enable this account' for 1 account. Re-launch Mail and see if you get the same behavior. Trying to see if this can be isolated to a particular account. Repeat as necessary until you have checked all accounts. If you can find out what account it is, delete the account and set it up again.

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 :/

Multiple Mac Mail Users Getting Wrong Return Addresses

Hello,
Having an odd problem with Mac Mail. We just switched to Gmail and it's been working fine for about two weeks until this. I have a computer with 4 users using Mac Mail. It's been that way for about 4 years now. What happens is this...
When one of the users sends out an email, somewhere along the line the return address is getting changed to another user of that computer. So for example: Joe Brown ([email protected]) is what his email address SHOULD look like in the return address. But for some reason it is this: Joe Brown ([email protected]) Whenever someone replies to Joe's email, it gets sent to Steve's mailbox instead due to the wrong email address.
Things I've tried.
1. Rebuilt the mailboxes
2. Deleted all the accounts and started over
3. Repaired Permissions
4. Made sure there's enough space on the computer (In the past, odd problems have crept up because there wasn't enough disk space.
At first it seems to be fixed but eventually it all starts over again...
HEEEEELP!!
Thank you - Randy

Randy,
Is it always the same user in the return address ?
And can we assume that whatever email address is involved it ends up with a return address at gmail.com or googlemail.com (or other GMail variant) ?
could be the smtp login used for all the mail has been set to an address on gmail. I don't use OSX Mail, but I use this feature in Entourage, I can send mail from any of my email addresses - some by different ISPs who would normally require me to dial in to their network to send mail, Gmail allows me to use their SMTP server to send mail from my other ISP mail account.
A consequence of this is that any replies come back to my gmail (googlemail.com in my case) account.
This doesn't happen by default, I needed to set some preferences on gmail, key a few passwords, etc. Can't check your gmail settings, but start by checking the SMTP server, and login, used for each user sending mail.

How do i turn off the 'Return Path' info in mac mail!

I don't know where it came from? how i turned it on or worse....how to turn this 'return Path' info off.
Please can someone help me.
I have lines of information with the follow starting with 'Return-Path:'All under my
FROM:
CC:
SUBJECT:
TO:
Headers in mac mail, please can some one tell me how to get rid of it! and tell me what its all about?

Sounds like you're seeing the full e-mail headers in Mail, rather than just the From, Subject, Date and To lines like normal. Is this in every message or just one? If it's just one, select it and press command-shift-H, or choose View -> Message -> Default Headers.
Alternately, if you're seeing it in every message, go to Mail -> Preferences, click the Viewing icon and set the "Show header detail" pop-up to Default.
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