Request Delivery and Read Receipts

Mail Receipt is a macOS application that adds delivery notification and read receipt requests to your e-mails.

Email apps are a popular App Store category for one simple reason - almost all of us need to access email on our iPhones and iPads. While Apple has its own Mail app built into iOS devices, some.
Mail Receipt is a macOS application that adds delivery notification and read receipt requests to your e-mails. Features: Mail Receipt adds requests for delivery notification and read receipts to your outgoing e-mails. To do this Mail Receipt adds three additional headers to your Mail.app sent e-mails. These headers are: Disposition-Notification-To.

What does Mail Receipt do?

Mail Receipt adds requests for delivery notification and read receipts to your outgoing e-mails.

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To do this Mail Receipt adds three additional headers to your Mail.app sent e-mails. These headers are:

Disposition-Notification-To
Return-Receipt-To
Bcc

These headers are added to Mail.app by way of the UserHeaders default.

Note: In macOS 10.14 Apple have changed the way user headers are set in Mail.app's outgoing e-mail. Mail Receipt does not currently work on macOS 10.14 or later. I reported this problem to Apple as bug #45515555.

The manual defaults commands below have been updated formacOS 10.14 and later.

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Set Up and Removal

Mail Receipt is free, so one-to-one support is limited. Thesupport page offers help on setting up or removing MailReceipt.

Will I get receipts?

Maybe. By adding the Disposition-Notification-To andReturn-Receipt-To headers to your e-mails, you are asking for receiptsbut they are not obliged to be sent.

Many e-mail servers will honour the Return-Receipt-To request andinform you that your e-mail has been placed into the mailbox of therecipient. This tells you that your e-mail reached the intended mailaccount but it does not tell you any more. Alone this automatic replydoes not let you know if your e-mail has been read or seen.

Read Receipts

In practice, a surprising number of recipients working for largeorganisations do honour the request for an automatic read reply. If therecipient's e-mail client supports read receipts, the e-mail softwarewill likely ask the recipient if they wish to acknowledge your requestfor a read receipt.

There are clear issues of privacy, social expectations, and localculture that surround read receipts. Be aware that not every e-mail yousend with these headers will be honoured and that some recipients mighttake offense. In other cases, recipients may appreciate the ability toautomate the quick reply.

UserHeaders

Mail Receipt provides a graphic interface for the following family ofTerminal.app commands.

On macOS 10.14, the Terminal.app application must be granted FullDisk Access in System Preferences.app > Privacy & Security beforeissuing the commands below.

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To view existing UserHeaders enter the following Terminal.appcommand:

To set a Disposition-Notification-To header via UserHeaders enterthe following Terminal.app command:

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To remove all UserHeaders enter the following Terminal.appcommand:

After issuing any command modifying the defaults, you must relaunchMail.app for changes to be noticed.

What makes Mail Receipt useful, is that existing headers are notoverwritten. Mail Receipt takes care to read in the existingUserHeaders, merge in your new settings, and only then apply theresult.

Add an email account

If you haven't already set up an email account in Mail, you might be prompted to add one when you open the app. If you're not prompted, or you just want to add another account, follow these steps:

From the menu bar in Mail, choose Mail > Add Account.
Select your email provider from the list, then click Continue.
Some accounts, such as Google, might ask that you click Open Browser to complete authentication in your web browser.
Follow the onscreen instructions to enter account details, such as your name, email address, and password. If you're not sure what information to enter, please contact your email provider for help.

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Use the Inbox for each account

The Inbox gathers together the messages for every email account you added. If you added more than one account, you can click the disclosure triangle next to Inbox in the sidebar, then select a mailbox to see only the messages for that account.

Optional: Turn on other account features

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If your account includes support for contacts, calendars, notes, or other features in addition to email, you can turn those features on or off:

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Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Internet Accounts.
Select your account in the sidebar.
Select the features you want to use with your account.