Outlook: Automatically Send or Deny Read Receipts
Contributed by MickeyMouse 
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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Michael said on October 8, 2008
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!!!
Thato said on December 9, 2008
Privacy, that’s the answer to your question
Pat O said on December 15, 2008
People like you who ask the question are the problem this feature is addressing
GT said on August 6, 2009
as the email recipient i never want to be prompted to reply to read receipts – how do i turn this feature off?
Anonymous said on January 29, 2010
having the option to request read receipts is fair, but not requestign for all messages. It takes away your right to know who else is requesting read receipts.
The Kize said on August 13, 2010
I suggest that “Read Receipts” have become archaic and are actually a throw back to the cave people days when covering one’s derriere was of utmost importance. A Question. Does the fact that I opened your e-mail, at which time a “READ” receipt is generated and sent back to you, actually indicate that I have READ your e-mail? Where is the special button that sends the message to the sender that says “Hi there. Not only did I read your e-mail, I understood your e-mail too.”
Ron Dyer said on April 5, 2011
This does not seem to work when emails transfer to a data file. Its still sends a receipt even though I turned it off.