I want to turn off read receipts in apple mail.

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I want to turn off read receipts in apple mail.

I found instructions on how to turn on read receipts and followed them and they worked. Now I want to turn them off, but can't. The site that gave me the commands to turn them on says that to turn them off I go to the terminal and enter this string:

defaults delete com.apple.mail UserHeaders

However, when I do that, I get this message:

Domain (com.apple.mail) not found.

Defaults have not been changed.

I am running Mojave 10.14.1

The instructions are from October of 2018. Does anyone have any more current instruction?

Posted on Dec 2, 2018 5:44 PM

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Answer 1

Barney-15E

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Dec 3, 2018 3:15 PM in response to roderickfromchester

I don't see UserHeaders here

That would indicate it is no longer set. Are you still getting distribution notifications sent?

I also get different results for com.apple.Mail

you can also try

defaults read -app Mail

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Answer 2

Dec 3, 2018 3:07 PM in response to Barney-15E

This is what I got:

Roderick-Batess-MacBook-Pro:~ Rick$ defaults read com.apple.mail

{

NSNavLastRootDirectory = "~/Desktop";

NSNavPanelExpandedSizeForOpenMode = "{1342, 434}";

NSNavPanelExpandedSizeForSaveMode = "{1108, 448}";

NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode = 1;

}

I don't see UserHeaders here, but otherwise I am out of my depth.

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Answer 3

Dec 3, 2018 5:37 PM in response to Barney-15E

By distribution notices do you mean read receipts? If so, then yes.

defaults read -app Mail got me exactly the same response as did defaults read com.apple.mail

AND as of this afternoon all of my Smart mailboxes are empty. I closed Mail and reopened it, with no effect. I used Mailbox > Rebuild but it didn't change anything. Next I deleted one of the smart mailboxes and re-created it. It remains empty.

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Barney-15E

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Dec 3, 2018 6:28 PM in response to roderickfromchester

All of that is probably unrelated to each other, but may indicate something else is wrong with your Mail Library that is causing both problems you see.

Do you see the email messages that should be in the Smart Mailboxes.

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Barney-15E

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Dec 3, 2018 2:26 PM in response to roderickfromchester

What happens with:

defaults read com.apple.mail

See if UserHeaders shows up in the defaults dump.

For me, it posted the same (erroneous) error when I attempted to delete that key. I think the error message is incorrect and meant to indicate that it did not find the domain-key pair.

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I want to turn off read receipts in apple mail.

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