Mail Read Receipt

Searching these forums comes up with numerous answers.

Quit Mail.
Launch Terminal and enter this line exactly as below:

defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{"Disposition-Notification-To" = " user@domain.com "; }'

(where user@domain.com is the email address you're wanting receipts to) and press Enter.

Note, however, that Mail does not respond to read receipts, and most (all?) mail clients have the option to turn off read receipts. Many people do choose to turn that off due to privacy concerns and the fact that read receipts have been misused by spammers. Thus, failure to receive a read receipt tells you nothing.

@ Thomas A Reed
That's great!
Now I've decided I don't want to do that - is there a way of turning it off?!?

Try this link instead about half way down and disabling read receipts terminal command.

Got confused, going to bed

RM

Now I forgot the link, geez

http://email.about.com/od/macosxmailtips/qt/etrequestrecp.htm

Just reinstalled the whole system and added my imap e-mail account about 8 hours ago since that I sent messages to 4 different e-mail addresses and looking in my PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS list I found another 3 e-mail addresses that are from 3 different messages that I opened for reading.

Curiously I went to my webmail and did NOT find any sent messages to these not used addresses.

IS MAIL SENDING NOTIFICATIONS OF MY READING??

Hi,

I have noticed the same issue. Mail is sending Read Receipts... but I don't want it to. This is annoying.

This only happened that day, and as I was running a logger script socket in the mail session I think I was some misunderstood data that caused the sent record.

Mail does not respond to read receipts. You can run the above command in terminal to send our requests for read receipts, but Mail will not respond to them.

If you've run the above command and want to stop them, then enter this command:

defaults delete com.apple.mail UserHeaders

I would like to prevent sending read receipts from my IPHONE when i am reading e-mail's. I've turned off it in Outlook, but my iPhone still sending.This behaviour of iphone is making me unhappy because of that spammers can get read receipts.After confirmation of mail address with this method, i am getting too much spam mail with increasing amount. I am tired of the replying medical product messages.
Blackberry has got this restriction under the function menu's.Is there any IOS upgrade under development for this issue?

obilginer wrote:
I would like to prevent sending read receipts from my IPHONE when i am reading e-mail's. I've turned off it in Outlook, but my iPhone still sending.This behaviour of iphone is making me unhappy because of that spammers can get read receipts.After confirmation of mail address with this method, i am getting too much spam mail with increasing amount. I am tired of the replying medical product messages.
Blackberry has got this restriction under the function menu's.Is there any IOS upgrade under development for this issue?

You will get a better answer if you post your IPhone questions in the IPhone forum here: http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=201

How can I specify my Mail Read Receipt to a particular account
I did the step of printing in the terminal:
defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{"Disposition-Notification-To" = "user@domain.com"; }'

I want to select just a particular account to use the read receipt. Not to all of my account read receipts to be sent to that one account.

As far as I know you can't. All that command does is create a header that is used on all outgoing email. I don't think there is a way to set a header for a particular account.

So this header is linked to all the accounts that I have active in my Mail account?

Yes, that command adds the read-receipt to the headers list. I don't know if you could add that header list just to one account.