I am also using Outlook (via Bootcamp on my Mac) for the purposes of mail management. I find that it seems to have more features and is a professional-quality program, whereas Mail seems a little more scaled-down, hovering between professional and, for a lack of a better term, "standard" or "functional"--call it semi-professional, if you will. Outlook (because it is a Microsoft product) has more integrated Exchange capabilities, and, as a Windows user before my switch to Mac, is easier to use, manipulate and navigate. Obviously, this is a biased opinion, as I've been using Outlook long before I ever used anything on the Mac side. But, if you're on Exchange and need a professional-quality mail program, I think that Outlook may serve you better, even for things such as read receipts, which I request with every mail message via the option to do so in Outlook's settings. Sincerely, Robert Hooper hooper...@buckeyemail.osu.edu The Ohio State University 553 Morrill Tower 1900 Cannon Drive Columbus, Ohio 43210 (740) 856-9435
-----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Michael Busboom Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 9:26 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Send/Receipt requests in Mail Thanks, Jim, for responding. Everyone in my office, except for me right now, uses MS Outlook. I have been accused of ignoring some mail that was sent to me, and the idea from higher up is that if they know when I read their mail, they can justifiably know when to expect my response. There are totally different problems, however, and I know that I am not ignoring anyone. Nevertheless, the prevailing thinking seems to be that if I use Outlook's feature which allows people to know when I read their mail, I won't ignore them. It sounds petty, I know, and it makes me look stupid, but there you have it, for what it's worth. Mike On 14,Feb,2011, at 3:42 PM, Jim Barbour wrote: > Hello Michael, > > Anyone using standard SMTP based mail (whether it be Mac Mail, > Thunderbird, Outlook, or something else) will not be able to track > when an email message they've sent out gets read, it just isn't > possible. > > So, the question is, what are your workmates using to read their mail, > and would it benefit you to use what they're using? What exactly are > the requirements that are driving this question? If the requirement > truely is that you need to know when someone has read your mail, or > they someone needs to know when you've read their mail, then I'd say > it isn't possible unless you are all using some proprietary email > system that supports this (not sure which one that would be) > > I'd be happy to help more with this, if you can provide more > information. > > Jim > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:25:10AM +0100, Michael Busboom wrote: >> Greetings to all of you, >> >> Here at work, there have been several misunderstandings about mail that was >> allegedly sent to me, but was ignored by me. For my own protection, I need >> to be able to know when people read my mail, and I also need to be able to >> generate receipt requests. this is critical, unfortunately. If I can't get >> the problem resolved, my only alternative is to use either Thunderbird or >> Outlook running under Windows, which I will do, though I would much rather >> stick with Apple's Mail. >> >> Can anyone give me definitive suggestions? >> >> Thank you very much in advance, >> >> Mike >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
