I want to get a Read or opened receipt from my mail recipients how do I do it
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.3.x), mail program
Mac Mail
Sorry, there is no preference or menu option available for setting up a read receipt request.
Best.
Mac Mail
Sorry, there is no preference or menu option available for setting up a read receipt request.
Best.
how unbelievable in such a costly set up that one cannot trace when and where emails are received.
thanks anyway
alhow
You can't force the recipient to abide by the request anyway.
It's a pretty pointless option.
To you maybe it is pointless.
to some people it is purely an indication of receipt and a needed request, when dealing with lots of people at the same time
Thank you for your observations
alhow - I'm sorry. I realize and understand how you want to use it and that you see such a feature as very valuable. Where I am not clear is if you understand that using the feature is no guarantee that the information the feature returns is accurate. It is the unknown accuracy that leads me to term the feature "pointless."
Since there is no way to enforce it - that is, a message can be opened, read (or not) and deleted (or not) without the corresponding alert being sent the message originator - there is little real use for the feature to even exist. Similarly, one can cause the read receipt to be returned to the sender without actually reading the message.
I presume it is for this sort of reason that Apple chose to not implement the read receipt in Mail.
how do i set mail so that i get a "Read receipt" from the recipients
