This confirms to the sender that you've received and opened the email.

You'll occasionally receive an email asking for you to send a read receipt to the sender. The setting must be manually disabled and is switched-on regardless of how read receipts are handled on the desktop Outlook app.Ī Microsoft support representative confirmed the instructions for disabling read receipts (see instructions below) from mobile devices but offered no explanation why they are switched on by default. This automatic setting appears to be the default for accounts on business-level Office 365 subscriptions. Hopefully none of those people requesting read receipts are your boss.Outlook on mobile devices is quietly sending read receipts without making users aware. A few may change their behavior, but I doubt many will be happy about it. People will at first be perplexed, then they'll be taken aback then some of them will be irritated. I somehow doubt you're going to get the reaction you're hoping for, though. Probably won't work on messages sent internally within your company (as opposed to via the Internet) though. You could try creating a rule that checks the message header for the text 'Disposition-Notification-To' and moves (or rather deletes) if it finds that. I cannot find a way to set this filter up - any ideas appreciated. I cannot install any 3rd party add-ons as I'm in a locked-down Corporate environment. What I'd really like to do is also filter/move those messages directly to the Deleted Items folder and then turn on 'Always Send a Response' in Tracking so that the person sending the message will know exactly what's happening - the message has been deleted without reading. I do this as I want to know who is sending me messages with the RR attribute enabled, without mehaving to open the message to find out. I am using Customise View-Messages to display the Outlook field 'Receipt Requested' = 'Yes' and display this 'Yes' message in Red in a new Inbox column titled RR (if that all makes sense). I really dislike receiving email that includes a request for a Read Receipt (RR) and currently have Outlook 2003 View setup to identify Inbox messages where a RR is requested. Hi - looking for guidance /assistance please and could not find a solution elsewhere on this site.

Outlook read receipt options