Outlook: Automatically Send or Deny Read Receipts

Contributor Icon Contributed by MickeyMouse Date Icon October 30, 2004  
Tag Icon Tagged: Microsoft Outlook

Are you tired of dealing with read receipts? Me too… do this and you’ll never have to worry with them again.


Everybody in my office uses read receipts. A read receipt is a little message that goes back to the original sender that confirms that the receiver has read the email. It annoys the crap out of me. Why can’t Bob just ask me if I received his email the next time I see him at the water cooler? Anyway, these receipts have been around forever…

If you always deny or always send these receipts, then just tell Outlook to do this for you.

    1. Open Outlook
    2. Click Tools menu
    3. Click Options
    4. Click the Email Options button under the Preferences tab
    5. Select Tracking Options
    6. Select Always, Never, or Ask Me under the section titled “Use this option to decide how to respond to requests for read receipts” at the bottom of the dialog box.
    7. Click OK until you are out of the Options dialog box
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    My question is, why does thsi application prompt the message recipient of whether or not they would like to send a receipt when the sender specifically asks for a receipt, what's the point of this function and, why not when the message is read by the recipient does the program just not send a receipt without the prompt to the recipient?

    Where is the option to disable this 'feature'?

    Anyone? Anyone? Thanks!!!
 
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