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?

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Read receipt option?

I need a read receipt option for Mail - sometimes I send large emails that might be too big for client's inboxes - and I need to know they got it - and when I send instructions and jobs to printers, I need them to confirm receipt. I love this feature in Gyazmail on my ibook, but I also want it in AppleMail so I can send these mails on my imac too.
Can anyone suggest a read receipt option that isn't automatic? I don't always want them - just when I click an icon or ask for one via a menu.

As far as I know Apple Mail doesn't provide this feature out-of-the-box. But you can create a custom header by typing the following in a Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{"Return-Receipt-To" = "[email protected]"; "Disposition-Notification-To" = "[email protected]"; }'
and substituting "[email protected]" with your own email address. However, this will cause Mail to send a receipt request everytime you send an email.
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PS: There are already lots of threads around dealing with exactly this question. Does no one try the forum search before posting? Try searching for "receipt" and you'll get hits over hits.

"Send Read Receipt" option not available in new 8.0.2 update?

Just updated my iPhone 5s to 8.0.2 and noticed the "Send Read Receipt" option is no longer available under Settings/Messages. Was this feature removed or moved somewhere else? I really don't want people to know when I've read their messages.

It's still there on my phone. Are you signed into iMessages? It's an iMessage only feature. It doesn't work (and never has) with SMS.

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.
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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 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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analogconversation, Welcome to the discussion area!
See the thread "mail receipt".

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.
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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.

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 not working in Outlook 2010

Hi. I am having some problems with read receipt. It does not work on my computer, it works fine on my co-workers computers. It worked fine for a couple of weeks but no I neither receive read receives from others to confirm nor do mine get sent
with my mails.
I have looked at rules and I have no rules. I really need this to work because of my work.
can someone please help me ?
Thanks
Baldvin

Hi Baldvin,
Did you tick the 'Request a Read Receipt' option when composing a new message? Or did you select the option "Read receipt confirming the recipient viewd the message" under
File tab > Options > Mail >
Tracking section?
Can you confirm if the recipient clicked Yes button and agreed to send the receipt?
You can send test emails with a request for read receipt to yourself to check the result.
Regards,
Steve Fan
TechNet Community Support

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Firstly, I am very new to Mac.
I am used to Microsoft Outlook, particularly the 'Delivery Confirmation' and 'Read Receipt' options.
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Disable Auto-Reply for Read Receipt

Is it possible to make me be prompted as to whether or not I send a read receipt?
A few people I know like to use the 'Read Receipt' option when they send me mail - if I'm on my windows PC I get prompted whether or not I want to send the receipt upon opening the message, when I use Mail on my mac it automatically sends it as I see a copy of the 'Delivery' message in my sent mail.
Would using Entourage prompt me since it might be a MS thing?

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Read receipts - help!!

My bby curve 8830 is sending read receipts to people who request them of me. I want to NOT send any. I go to Options/Email settings but it does not allow me to control read receipts on my corporate/company issued email address (master account for the bby) but I can control them on the personal/gmail address I set up on the bby
why cant i see these read receipt options for the main/comapny issued address?
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Your company BES policy is not allowing to disable these. Ask assistance of your BES administrator to help you out.
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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 :/

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