Here’s how to do this using any Mac running OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) or higher.

If so, take the following steps to finish setting up read receipt requests.

Highlight the entire line.

Terminal in macOS Finder

Copy that highlighted line with theCommand+Cshortcut, but don’t paste it yet.

End it with a single quote.

Disable Automatic Read Receipt Requests

Turning off this setting is just as easy.

Terminal app in macOS showing defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders

As above, openTerminalagain.

throw in the following, then pressEnter:

defaults delete com.apple.mail UserHeaders

Terminal app in macOS showing “defaults delete com.apple.mail UserHeaders” command