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Be alerted to 'read receipts' in Mail messages
Authored by: Poof on Mar 08, '06 10:11:53AM
that's nice, but since you're new to Apple Mail, maybe you like this trick even better:
  1. Open Mail preferences
  2. Select 'Rules'
  3. Click 'Add Rule'
  4. Click the pulldown that says "From"
  5. Select "Edit Header List" (last entry)
  6. Click the '+' symbol to add a header
  7. Type (or paste :) ) Disposition-Notification-To
  8. Tell the rule to ensure this header contains a 0 (zero), which will be true until the year 2111
  9. Select an action to do, e.g. set the color of the message to red, or make an autoreply :)
  10. save and apply
  11. all done
I have to note that it does seem to forget about the extra header when you later try to modify the condition, but it keeps working (at least on Apple Mail 2.0.5)

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why a date in the Disposition-Notification-To header?
Authored by: moritzh on Mar 08, '06 11:34:01AM

Sorry, I don't understand your #8. Are you suggesting that the rule should check if the Disposition-Notification-To header field contains a zero and if so performs the specified action (colors the message red/...)? I just dug around in my old e-mails to find one with such a header set (luckily I don't get many of these annoying things!), and there is just a line like this:

Disposition-Notification-To: foo@bar.com

So just a return address and no date, which makes sense to me, to be honest. Based on that, I would rather set the rule criterion to Disposition-Notification-To Contains @ (which should be valid even after 2110...).

Or do I misunderstand?



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