Outlook: How To Request Delivery and/or Read Receipts
Posted by Rob Rogers in 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.
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November 04, 2009 at 4:17 am, Anonymous said:
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 )
May 31, 2010 at 4:25 am, Satish Kashyap said:
Very Good Website. It is really helpful to all. Thanks a lot.
June 01, 2010 at 4:35 am, suresh said:
It is really helpful to all. Thanks a lot
July 28, 2010 at 4:49 am, Maniganda said:
Very Good Website. It is really good
August 24, 2010 at 11:30 pm, Guest said:
thank you! very easy instructions
November 16, 2010 at 4:20 am, Periyasamy said:
tks a lot. it helps me out
December 16, 2011 at 7:30 am, Melody said:
Can you request a read receipt without the recipient knowing?