How to generate an acknowledgment of receipt with MAC mail (Snow Leopard)?
Some times it is very important not to contact a person (that is at the moment not available), but to know if he has got or read the mail !!!
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
You can certainly do this, but it's a bit pointless. It only works if the recipient is using Windows, and has that feature activated in their mail client (system administrators often disable it), and if either of those are not true, you get nothing. It's much easier to send an email and ask the recipient to acknowledge receipt and/or reply ASAP.
Thank's Kurt for your hint. But in an "advanced and userfiendly system" like mac mail with intelligent mailboxes etc I think this simplke feature (that is supporteds by many mailsystems with no charge) should be incorporated.It's a pitty (and time consuming !!) that I have to go to each of those mail systems (gmx, google, ...) to have the feature available ;(((
To ask for the aknowledgement ASAP is a possible work around , but a more complicated and time consuming action for the recipient than an auto-answer (with max. one clic to enable the aknowledgement).
"Return receipt" is not a standard feature of Internet email. Some email applications incorporate it, but many do not since it is unreliable and largely uninformative (it says nothing about whether a recipient has actually read the email, only that it was received by the client application). Unless and until Internet email systems add a standard for return receipt and make it mandatory, something which is very unlikely, then it's going to continue to be "hit or miss" as to whether the recipient supports it and hence largely useless.
Regards.
It's not a question of charging for it; it's a matter of it not working unless those two conditions are met by the recipient. Neither Gmail or any other web-based email system has that feature, so it's irrelevant to the conversation.
There are many reasons why email read receipts are a bad idea (search Google). Mail does not support read receipts, for good reason.
And, read receipts are just about useless since whether or not one is sent to you is totally in control of your recipient. Email clients that support read receipts always default to not allowing receipts and it is up to the recipient to turn on this functionality in their email client.
And for what its worth, many email users believe it is noone's business other than theirs whether they received/read their email.
Thank's a lot for your answers.
It seems to me, that german paperless communication even in a big company I'm working with is different to yours. I have used this feature in daily work with Lotus Notes many times and it was very usefull to me!
So the community seems to have had bad experience, I have to wait for Apple to pass it through into mail and so long take the roundabout way ;-(
Thank's again for your replies 🙂
I have used this feature in daily work with Lotus Notes many times and it was very usefull to me!
Completely self-contained systems like Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange, where the developer builds both the servers and the client applications using their own protocols and methods, can implement features such as true "return receipt". Internet mail, as I said, has no such feature mandatory, so email clients that use standard Internet mail cannot enforce such receipts. If you want "return receipt" as a feature, you will have to use Notes or Exchange.
So the community seems to have had bad experience, I have to wait for Apple to pass it through into mail and so long take the roundabout way ;-(
Sorry, I have no idea what you mean by this.
Regards.
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