How do I request a read receipt?
Can anybody advise me how to request a read reseipt in Mail?
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.5)
From http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1183650
• Quit Mail
• Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/)
• Enter the following text (make sure to keep all quotes exactly as is!)
defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{"Disposition-Notification-To"="your@address";}'
(of course, using your correct email address instead of "your@address")
• All future messages sent with Mail will now include the Disposition-Notification-To header which is the one asking for a return receipt.
However, read receipts are hardly popular these days (due to spammer abuse) and most people choose to disable reponding to them by default. In fact, many mail clients (including Apple Mail) simply cannot acknowledge them.
They have no attributability benefit to them whatsoever.