Will Mail.app support message receipts in Lion?

Ahh, that makes sense. There's another good reason to avoid Exchange servers if possible, I guess! It's too bad the admins running the server aren't savvy enough to turn that feature off (assuming it can be turned off).

Good point :-)

There are endless reasons to avoid Exchange Servers. Too bad I cannot influence this decision!

Ain't IT bureaucracy wonderful! 😉

Wow! I am mesmerized with this answers! It seems there are people here that think "Generate Read Receipts" are the most evil thing on Earth. I am trying to find why... I used Mac Entourage/Outlook since I remember use e-mail and I was accustomed to get answers professional way. Yes, I am talking about professional apps that cost money. Yes, that's why I am using Apple Mail app since last January because economical situation it's worst and we have to cut where we can. If you ask me if Mail App is professional you know my answer. Yes, it's free and it does what we need. Send and Receive mails. yes, there are some advantages to use it because of its connection with other apps on a Mac. But please don't say "Read Receipts" are useless and clash with privacy. Why the **** mobile phones have them? If I send a message in my mobile I know when the person read it. If he/she had the phone off when the phone is ON again the day after I will receive a message that the message was read. Privacy in a e-mail message? Don't joke with me! "Read receipts" tell me that a "person" at least receive my message. If he/she open and read it... Their problem! Sending an e-mail without "asking read receipts" it's like sending a message in a bottle over the sea. If we have lucky and our message don't clash with a rock (spam filter) someone will read our message. There's a feature in Outlook Mac called "Block Sender". Do you think this it's not useful on Apple Mail? On Outlook/Entourage I haven't the problems with fonts I am experience now. Why my message now arrive on the other side with difference appearance? Text in Times or Courier? Why? If I used Verdana ou Calibri? Where's the HTML feature? Please give me valid answers and not because it's expensive and its useless. Forgive me but those are poor excuses! Don't get me wrong, I will continue to use Apple Mail but I am expecting it to turn Pro and I am sitting and waiting...

I believe you are missing the main point about read receipts.

The fact is that most e-mail programs are configured by default to ignore recepit requests, and won't respond to them even if you send them a mail requesting a receipt. Unless your recipients are willing to reconfigure their e-mail programs to respond to receipt requests, nothing you can do on your end will get one returned to you from them. It doesn't matter what e-mail client you use, Apple's Mail or otherwise.

Excuse me but I don't agree with your opinion...

It's difficult for me to express myself in english as it's not my native language.

I made a search with my other 2 e-mail addresses, open them directly on the web browser and both (from different domains) asked by default for confirmation "Send Read receipt to the sender". Then I can say YES or NO or just forget it and don't do anything. Nobody force me to use the button. I asked about some friends situation and they said they never changed that feature. By default the e-mail app asks for "confirmation" and in some cases they can set that feature automatically response.

Meanwhile, some people say this feature it's against privacy and it's a useless thing. In my humble opinion, the hackers can send mailing lists use PHP Lists apps and are able to see if you click, which link you saw, when and how many times you saw, etc. If it's useless why so many discussion about it and a few plugins and Terminal Commands for it?
For those who work for professional purposes "Read Receipt" it's an advantage. When you send e-mail to a partner or a usual customer asking something and you used to receive "Read Receipt Confirmation" from the start at least you know that person received your e-mail and you don't have to call him/her asking if they are dealing with your request.

You send a message on mobile, you receive a message: "Your message was delivered". You send a fax, you receive a message: "The transmission was OK" (In this case you don't have confirmation that the message has been read but at least you know that the "sending" was OK with no errors). You send a Registred letter by mail and you receive a confirmation that the letter arrived. Does someone think is professional to put a message at the end requesting a return message confirming that the message was received???
We have to be connected.Unfortunately, we are living in a world that is spinning too fast. If we miss the train...

I suppose that there are some people using e-mail programs that are configured to respond to receipt requests. But this is the exception and not the norm. There is nothing you can do on your end, no matter what email program you are using, that will get a receipt returned from a recipient whose email program has not been configured to respond to one.

That said, it's possible to enter a Terminal command to generate read receipt requests in Mail. Google "mac os x mail read receipt".

Does someone think is professional to put a message at the end requestingareturn messageconfirming thatthe message was received???

I think that is much more professional than sending a sneaky read receipt. When I get read receipts from someone, I stop doing business with them.

I second the opinion of Barney. Read receipts are unprofessional. If something is important, pick up the phone!

I also want to turn the discussion to the difference between a delivery receipt and a read receipt. If you want to be sure, that the message has actually been delivered then a delivery receipt is what you need. Read receipts mean that someone has actually read the message. This is really something that nobody needs to know.

So if all the people in this thread that do think a receipt is important, and it is just about being sure that the message has been delivered, why don't you just use a delivery receipt? Outlook provides this option!

But I am not sure if this is really your motivation behind it! This is why people like Barney and me stop doing business with such people! So stop hiding behind technical things and start working as professionals.