Read receipts in Mail??

Are they called something else (that i have not understood yet) or does the functionality simply not exist?

You'll have to look into add-ons for this functionality. MailPriority 1.4.1 is one of them (check for the requirements just to be sure).

You can also look here at Hawk Wings - Tips and Plug-ins to make Apple Mail Even Better and I know that 43 Folders has plenty of articles on Mac OS X's Mail.app (not sure if that link is going to work, though. If it doesn't just go to 43 Folders and search for Mail.app, it'll give you all the hits of past articles posted there).

Good luck!

WOW! Never dreamed all that was available. Lots of thanks...you are always very helpful.

I'm glad you find this useful! :girl:

Just keep in mind that read receipts are not part of the POP3 protocol, so any recipient (even those using Outlook) can deny or in some cases, will not respond to a read receipt request. To be honest, they're just about useless unless you're working on an Exchange-based system. Even then, if your administrator doesn't lock it down, people will be notified that there's a read receipt and can choose to acknowledge or deny it.

Also, sometimes spammers use read receipts to determine whether or not there's a living person on the other end of an email address. If you acknowledge spam, this will get you placed on a "gold" list of more desirable email addresses and will like incite more junk.

Thanks for the hints for where to look for it.

Even though people you send mails to can deny to send a read receipt, I think it still has a value in those cases that they do not and you actually get it back. But that might be just a habit I got from using Out-Look before......