Outlook: How To Request Delivery and/or Read Receipts

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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.

 

7 Comments -


  1. Anonymous said on November 4, 2009

    Thanks for the instructions.

    One more thing you can add is, this only works when the receiver is also on some mail client ( probably outlook / windows live mail )

  2. Satish Kashyap said on May 31, 2010

    Very Good Website. It is really helpful to all. Thanks a lot.

  3. suresh said on June 1, 2010

    It is really helpful to all. Thanks a lot

  4. Maniganda said on July 28, 2010

    Very Good Website. It is really good

  5. Guest said on August 24, 2010

    thank you! very easy instructions

  6. Periyasamy said on November 16, 2010

    tks a lot. it helps me out

  7. Melody said on December 16, 2011

    Can you request a read receipt without the recipient knowing?

 

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