Mail Read Receipt Issue I Don't See Addressed

Question

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

Answer 1

paste the following into AppleScript Editor and save it somewhere.
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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.