Leopard Mail: Read/Delivery Receipt?

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TLizard wrote:

> All,
> Have been lurking for 'bout a month and haven't seen this topic
> addressed. Nothing in help files about read or delivery receipts. Is
> it something I should settle to do without?

Yes. Do without it. It's non-standard, and unreliable *at best* anyway.

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TLizard wrote:
> All,
> Have been lurking for 'bout a month and haven't seen this topic
> addressed. Nothing in help files about read or delivery receipts. Is
> it something I should settle to do without? Or should I go back to
> Entourage or Thunderbird. Would prefer to remain 3rd party app free if
> can.

Mail.app can't do it. No other app can do it either without the consent
of the receiving party. I would *never* configure my e-mail software to
send back a confirmation that I had read or even received any e-mail
from *anyone*.

If you really want that functionality, I suggest simply sending a second
e-mail or a quick phone call to ask if the first e-mail had been seen.

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In , TLizard wrote:

> Have been lurking for 'bout a month and haven't seen this topic addressed.
> Nothing in help files about read or delivery receipts. Is it something I
> should settle to do without? Or should I go back to Entourage or
> Thunderbird. Would prefer to remain 3rd party app free if can.

Delivery receipts are a bad idea for any number of reasons for very little
gain. I hope that Mail.app will never encourage their use. But after
what Mail.app has now down with HTML mail, I wouldn't be surprised if they
added this mail abomination as well.

-j

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On 22 Feb, 16:12, TLizard wrote:
> All,
> Have been lurking for 'bout a month and haven't seen this topic
> addressed.  Nothing in help files about read or delivery receipts.  Is
> it something I should settle to do without?  Or should I go back to
> Entourage or Thunderbird.  Would prefer to remain 3rd party app free if
> can.

Yes, it is possible. I made a script that allows you to create single
messages with receipt notification requests with no need to set it
globally via Terminal and quitting/relaunching Mail.
I use it personally and works well.
I'll post it on my site (www.jaw.it) next week.

But, as others, I confirm that delivery receipts are discouraged.
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