[gotanproject]

Hello,

I am trying to figure out how to request a delivery receipt or read receipt when sending an email using the curent mac Mail version 2.1 for os 10.4.7.

Does anyone know how I can do this?

THANKS

[msuper69]

Originally Posted by gotanproject

Hello,

I am trying to figure out how to request a delivery receipt or read receipt when sending an email using the curent mac Mail version 2.1 for os 10.4.7.

Does anyone know how I can do this?

THANKS

Not possible with any mail clients over the Internet. It works between AOL clients using AOL's proprietary email.

[gohuskers]

Not true. Outlook has always had this capability. If anyone knows how to do a read receipt, let me know. Mail may not have that capability, but it is possible since Outlook has it. Are you saying that only MS can do it?

[Moose]

Originally Posted by msuper69

Not possible with any mail clients over the Internet.

Read receipts certainly are possible over the internet, but since you're at the mercy of the recipient's client when it comes to getting one, you're best off not relying on it.

Apple Mail, however, supports neither generating read receipt requests nor responding to them.

[Philip J. Fry]

Originally Posted by Moose

Read receipts certainly are possible over the internet, but since you're at the mercy of the recipient's client when it comes to getting one, you're best off not relying on it.

Apple Mail, however, supports neither generating read receipt requests nor responding to them.

At one time I thought there was a third party utility for Mail but I can't seem to locate it now.

[Mithras]

Delivery receipts are evil, and unsupported by many mail clients and mail servers both.
If you really want to, you could

But how about you ask the person to confirm that they've received your request, you can use a web bug:
1. Write a "template" message in raw HTML or in your favorite HTML editor.
2. Include an (absolute) link to a small transparent image, with a unique url
e.g. <img src="http://myserver.com/images/transparent.gif?msg=123">

3. Upload the file to your server (or, if your Mac is always-on and accessible from the outside internet, just host it in on your Mac)
4. Open the web page in Safari, and press command-I to create a new message from the page HTML.
5. Edit and address as needed.

6. Watch your web server logs for a hit at /images/transparent.gif?msg=123.
Congratulations, you've unnecessarily invaded someone's privacy!



This is not at all guaranteed to work -- I'm pretty sure that both Apple Mail and Microsoft's Outlook / Express default to *not* loading remote images, precisely because people don't like this practice.

[schalliol]

I'm bumping this. These can be extremely handy to have, even if the receipient doesn't know that they are sending that receipt.

A freeware utility called MailPriority (which seems to have been abandonded) had this capability. I've used this in Eudora for quite some time, and I filter receipts so I don't even see them come in. Yet I can check that folder if I want to check on one. Now that I have transitioned to Apple's mail, I really miss this feature. It really can be helpful in my business efforts. It would be nice at times to send the delivery receipt as well.

Does anyone know of a way to make it happen?

[schalliol]

Bump. A few months later, does anyone know of a way to enable this?

[Moose]

Mail.app does not process requests for read/delivery receipts.

Even if there were a plugin that did that, you'd have to convince the unfortunate recipients of your "business efforts" that it's a good idea to install that plugin so they can have the pleasure of letting you know that they've read your mail.

There is no "110% guaranteed" way to find out that somebody has read your mail. Get over it. Move on.

[JKT]

It should also be pointed out that, even if you do receive a read receipt, just because someone has opened a message it does not mean they have read it and/or have had the time to deal with it at that particular moment.

FWIW.

[FFrank]

I think the discussion is unnecessary -
some of the User - as I want to know if and when the mail is received
we do not need it all the time - but some clients are only react if they see you get the mailreceipt.

Therefore I in my person need it for 20 to 30 mails per year
As schalliol I love mailpriority - good tool
perhaps we can bring david to a update ?

even if we pay the time http://forums.macnn.com/images/smili...ol/biggrin.gif