Many people look for this if they are working in an Outlook world.

Odissefs’ script creates a new message in Mail.app, prompting you for the account you wish to use:

Then you compose the email as usual and send it off. If your recipient is using a compatible client, they will get a request to send back a read receipt, which then duly appears:

It is easier to set up than Joel Nelson’s script (see an earlier Hawk Wings post) although I have found it to be a little erratic. Sometimes the request for confirmation doesn’t come through to the recipient even when she or he is using Outlook.

You can find the script on the Apple Discussion Forums or on Ody’s web site .

Personally I am glad that Mail.app can neither send nor receive these things. Nothing annoys me more than people interrupting me to ask for a confirmation that I am reading their emails, when I am in the middle of reading them.

But if you go for this kind of thing or you are in a work environment in which they are required, you will like Odissiefs’ work.mail.app, apple mail, outlook, thunderbird, read receipts, applescript, scripts, plugins, productivity, Similar Posts:

• AppleScript to send a return receipt in Mail.app
• Return Receipts in Mail 2.0
• The Plug-in Graveyard
• Mail.app and Address Book being stupid
• Hawk Wings Addon and Plugin List Update: 10 new entries

• Address Book Reports (smarter printing of Address Book info) was added to the Address Book Section.
• Whereabouts (sharing Address Book contacts over the Internet) was added to the Address Book Section as well.
• Chibi Ninja (cross-platform encryption for emails in Apple Mail) was added to the Added Functionality Section.
• An AppleScript that will automatically reply to requests for read receipts was also listed in the Added Functionality Section.
• iVoiceMail (voice recordings in Mail.app messages) finds a home in the Added Functionality Section as well.

That makes 108 plugins, addons, helpful apps and AppleScripts to make your Mail.app experience quicker, smarter, broader and more enjoyable.

This week Hawk Wings also got Recent Comments in the sidebar so that you can more easily benefit from the experience of others with these addons. It got some advertising.

Hawk Wings also passed the million mark this week. It has now served 1,098,154 pages. w00t! ;-)Similar Posts:

• Weekly Update
• Hawk Wings Addon and Plugin List Update: 10 new entries
• Statistical Celebration / Weekly Update
• Plugin and addon list updates
• Plugin List update: 11 new entries