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Here’s how to send one or all emails from Outlook for Windows/Mac with a Read Receipt. On the Outlook for Windows ribbon Options tab there’s a ‘Request a Read Receipt’ option. Select at the top of the message compose pane. Select Show message options. Select Request a read receipt or Request a delivery receipt, or both. To choose how Outlook on the web responds to read receipt requests: Select Settings View all Outlook settings. Select Mail Message handling. Under Read receipts, choose how to respond to requests for read receipts. Jun 24, 2019 Request Read Receipts Automatically. You can also make read receipts a default option in Windows Live Mail, Windows Mail, or Outlook Express so that a receipt is requested automatically for every message you send. The option to request read and/or delivery receipts is on the compose mail Options ribbon and Draft menu. If you are not familiar with receipts (because Outlook for Mac did not support it), receipts are notification that the message was received or read. Delivery receipt: send a notification mail when the email has been delivered to the mailbox. Mar 19, 2020 If you use Outlook in a workgroup environment and use Microsoft Exchange Server as your mail service, you can request delivery receipts for messages you send. A delivery receipt means that your message has been delivered, but it doesn't mean the recipient has seen the message or opened it.

So, you want to occasionally receive a notification that someone has read your e-mail because you know that certain person at the office will procrastinate on stuff and then try to say 'E-mail? What e-mail? I didn't see any e-mail.' With a Read Request, you can effectively handle their excuses and prove they did read it!
Anyway, getting a Read Request on every e-mail is a good way to overwhelm your Inbox and going into Outlook's main options every time and turning the master setting on and off is not a good use of your time.

So ... what to do?

2 Steps total

Step 1: Read Receipt - Outlook 2003

Before you send your e-mail message, go to 'View,' 'Options' and then select 'Request a Read Receipt for this Message.'

Then, click 'Close' and send your e-mail message as usual.

Step 2: Read Receipt - Outlook 2007

Before you send your e-mail message, go to 'Options' and then select 'Request a Read Receipt.'

Then send your e-mail message as usual.

How To Request Read Receipt In Outlook For Mac 2016 Outlook

As you can see, this is a simple way of getting a per message read request without cluttering up your Inbox with a multitude of read receipts.

I hope this helps!
David

How To Request A Read Receipt In Outlook On Mac

3 Comments

Read Receipt In Outlook 2007

• Poblano
  John3722 Jun 30, 2010 at 08:53am

  Very nice , thanks

• Thai Pepper
  Rormeister Jul 16, 2010 at 01:06pm

  Only shortcoming is the 'certain person' can click 'No' to confirm the read receipt.

• Serrano
  Simon B Aug 2, 2010 at 11:10am

  You can actually change the settings in Exchange so the user doesn't get the option to confirm a read receipt and automatically sends it :-)