Hi Jennifer,
Just to add to James' comment, I believe that e-mail receipts are
discouraged these days because there is also a security and privacy.
Scammers know if they get a receipt back that your e-mail address is
valid, and therefore worth sending more 'scam'.
So like so much on the internet, what was a good feature is now
something used to advantage by the 'nasty' people.
Cheers ... Clyde
On 12/09/2009, at 6:20 PM, James Devenish wrote:
Hi Jennifer,
2009/9/12 Jennifer Lefroy <lefroy.jenni...@gmail.com>:
Is there any way in Mail of asking for an acknowledgement of
receipt of an
email? At present I know of two emails which took days to reach the
addressees (and of course there may be others that I do not know
about -
I can understand your frustration. Although it is possible to get
Apple Mail to request a receipt, this feature is turned off for good
reasons. Basically, read receipts needs to be generated by the
receiver, and most people's mail programmes either don't do this, or
prompt the user to do so (and many people say 'no' -- they don't want
you knowing whether or not they've read the message). The only
exception is that some businesses and government departments are set
up so that read receipts are acknowledged automatically -- so it's
only useful for you if those are the types of businesses you are
mailing.
For most senders, read receipts are so unreliable they're not worth
the effort of trying. You won't get receipts even for messages that
have been read! For anything that requires urgency or acknowledgement,
it's best to use your message to ask the person to reply by e-mail
before a certain date.
Hopefully that clarifies things at least.
James
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