Outlook: How To Request Delivery and/or Read Receipts

Contributed by shamanstears October 10, 2006  
Tagged: Microsoft Outlook

Outlook allows you to request verification that a message has been received and also when it has been read. To activate this:

To request a delivery and/or read receipt for a specific message:

1. In your Message window, click View.

2. Select Options.

3. Under Voting and Tracking options, select Request a delivery
receipt for this message and/or Request a read receipt for this message.

4. Click Close.

To request delivery and/or read receipts on all messages you send:

1. In the main window, click Tools.

2. Select Options.

3. On the Preferences tab, click the E-mail Options button.

4. Click the Tracking Options button.

5. Under For all messages I send, request: select Read receipt and/or Delivery receipt.

4. Click OK to close each of the dialog boxes.