"did they read my email" receipt in Mail?

[stevegong]

Hi guys. I remember a couple of years back with outlook there was a feature so that you got a message if the recipient has opened your email, and that way you know ifthey read it or not. I can't seem to find an option for this in Mail. Does it exist?

thanks,
Steve.

[MCQ]

Haven't seen it within Mail. This add-on may help (haven't tried it personally):
http://home.tiscalinet.ch/david.frank/projects/mailpriority/

[FFL]

Haven't seen it within Mail. This add-on may help (haven't tried it personally):
http://home.tiscalinet.ch/david.frank/projects/mailpriority/That looks like a pretty cool and useful add-on - I'm going to give it a try. Thanks MCQ.

[feend]

I remember a couple of years back with outlook there was a feature so that you got a message if the recipient has opened your email, and that way you know if they read it or not.

Outlook only requests a read reciept, it won't send one without asking permission.

Furthermore, it is bad manners in my opinion and the only people I know who allow them to be returned are those who are forced to by fascist bosses.

There are other web-based solutions to this problem but they are even less morally sound and less effective (as the same method, invisible images, is used by spammers to confirm addresses and is therefore blocked by most mail clients).

[bborofka]

Are "read receipts" only part of the Exchange protocol? If so, it only shows how Mail needs better/full Exchange support. I hate having to use Entourage.

[murbot]

I have never allowed a send receipt to be sent back. It's annoying as hell.

[SilentEchoes]

Try this out:

http://didtheyreadit.com/

[feend]

That's the less moral, less effective method, also used by spammers i referred to above.

[stevegong]

Well, I don't see what's so immoral about it.

I have a friend who might be on vacation and I just want to know if he's read my email yet, thus I'd know if he's back from vacation or not. I'm not even expecting a return email cause this kid's very disorganised, just want to know if he read it.

[Brad]

It's immoral because it's an invasion of one's privacy.

Would you like telemarketers to know that when you sit by the phone and look at the caller ID to ignore them that you're actually there? They see that, "oh yeah, Jim *is* at home between the hours of 6 and 8 PM. Now we can target him even more during those times!"

It's the same thing for e-mail. Spammers use services like that to see if people are actually getting their e-mails. They can use it to track people's habits with regards to reading e-mail and then target them further.

I used to work at a company that used a similar solution. Sure, it provided lots of statistics to the company on reads and clickthroughs from the e-mail, but it was at the expense of some pretty important personal privacy rights.

[stevegong]

It's immoral because it's an invasion of one's privacy.

Would you like telemarketers to know that when you sit by the phone and look at the caller ID to ignore them that you're actually there? They see that, "oh yeah, Jim *is* at home between the hours of 6 and 8 PM. Now we can target him even more during those times!"

It's the same thing for e-mail. Spammers use services like that to see if people are actually getting their e-mails. They can use it to track people's habits with regards to reading e-mail and then target them further.

I used to work at a company that used a similar solution. Sure, it provided lots of statistics to the company on reads and clickthroughs from the e-mail, but it was at the expense of some pretty important personal privacy rights.


oh, I see what you mean. yeah, I'd agree.