I am running mail 6.5. I would like to get a receipt like I do in iMessages that the mail has been read. My friends with PC's say they do it all the time. I am stymied.
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
Sorry, but Mac Mail does not support that feature.
Very few email clients support that feature, or default it to off.
You can set up a header to mark messages with a read receipt, but Mail does not respond to them.
http://email.about.com/od/macosxmailtips/qt/et_request_recp.htm
It would be simpler to set up a default signature that stated,
"While I realize that when or if you read this email is none of my business, my life would be incomplete if you didn't respond immediately upon receipt of this email."
If your recipients are anything like me, your emails would just go straight to the trash after receiving either of those from you.
I am surprised that anyone allows this invasion of privacy. Viva el PC.
Even if Mail had that capability, sending the receipt is under the control of the email recipient. Your friends only get receipts if their recipients email clients are configured to send receipts. Email clients default to not sending receipts.
Do you know if gmail, hot mail, or yahoo, support that feature?
lburech wrote:
Do you know if gmail, hot mail, or yahoo, support that feature?
None of them do.
Confirming Receipt of Mail, Confirming Receipt of Mail
