Delivery Receipt extension for Apple Mail?

[Tapper]

Hi. Does anybody know of an Apple Mail Extension that allows me to send an email and request a Delivery Receipt and also a Read Receipt?

 

[hg.wells]

From my understanding this is an Outlook only feature. Which is also becoming more and more frowned upon when people use it. I honestly can’t remember the last time I saw it used, and when it was used people always just ignored it.

 

[Tapper]

I only need it for non-personal emails. For example I would like to know that an email was delivered or read when sending to government officials in my locality or to customer service for product support. There are legal requirements for delivery of communications and absent the dated method of certified mail or UPS delivery with signature required, we need an electronic method of legally proving delivery was made. An email reply is one method but the recipient doesn't always comply with such a request.

 

[DrCC]

Hi. Does anybody know of an Apple Mail Extension that allows me to send an email and request a Delivery Receipt and also a Read Receipt?

Mailbutler. The free version only does receipts, if you want more features, there is a monthly fee.
I use the free version and it works for the receipts. There is a Mailbutler watermark that gets added for each new email, but it can be manually deleted before the email is sent.

 

[NoBoMac]

From my understanding this is an Outlook only feature.

Believe Google Workspaces (or whatever the business component is called these days) has it as an option. And believe Lotus/IBM Notes. But it's an enterprise-y thing that can be disabled on the server.

And as mentioned, someone sends me one of these, I quickly slam that "no" button.

Quick scan of Mailbutler points to it using tracking pixels, so if recipient has disabled automatic image loading...

 

[Tapper]

Thanks for the Mailbutler suggestion as it sounds good. Here is a post detailing the tracking feature.

 

[hg.wells]

It’s not 100% going to work though, it’s reliant on a marketing tracker. As more and more company’s are privacy focused they disable the automatic download of these trackers. We use Outlook and our company has these disabled, we have to click a button to download any attached images.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Trying to track people under the guise of putting your personal expectations to rest is not right, in my opinion. Tracking in this manner is no legal proof the email was actually opened and read by the recipient in question, especially by a government official. Most of the time, government computers prevent such tracking from occurring. And if not, it is very easy for an individual to sidetrack the mail tracking.