Pressing the Options button in the toolbar of OWA 2010 will open the Message Options dialog which allows you to set the “Request a read receipt for this message” option. If your company is still using Exchange 2010, you can press the Options button on the toolbar when composing a message to open a similar dialog with the Request a Read Receipt option. Message Options dialog Outlook on the Web. The Message Options dialog will open which will allow you to select the option to request a Read Receipt Opening the Ellipsis menu in Outlook on the Web to open the Message Options dialog. Keep in mind that even if your global Outlook Express settings are to request read receipts for all email, you always have the option to turn off the request. When composing a message, click on the ellipsis button (3 dots) and from the menu choose: Show message options… When Outlook on the Web as part of Office 365 for Business, or Exchange 2013 or Exchange 2016, then you can find the Request a Read Receipt option in the following way The Request a Read Receipt feature is not available to Outlook on the Web for accounts. Outlook 2016 now automatically requests a read receipt for all messages sent in the future.
Check the box Read receipt confirming the recipient viewed the message and confirm your selection with OK. The first thing to be aware of is that this option is only available when using an Exchange account that is part of an Office 365 or corporate on-premises Exchange environment. In the next step, select the Mail menu item and scroll down to the Tracking group.
The option to request for a Read Receipt when using Outlook on the Web can indeed be a little bit hard to discover. How can I request for a Read Receipt when using Outlook on the Web?
However, when I’m using Outlook in a browser, I don’t seem to have this option. Please let us know if you have more info.When I’m using Outlook on the Desktop, it is quite easy to enable the option to request a read receipt. This seems a strange omission, making us wonder if we’ve overlooked some Read Receipt settings in Outlook 2016 for Mac.
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Under Read receipts, choose how to respond to requests for read receipts. Seemingly, you can turn Read Receipts responses totally off but no way to reverse that. To choose how Outlook on the web responds to read receipt requests: Select Settings > View all Outlook settings. However, the first time you get a Read Receipt request, the same pop-up appears as in Outlook for Windows.Ĭhecking “Don’t ask me about sending receipts again” will change the global setting to not sending Read Receipts. There’s no global option we can find for Read Receipt responses.
We can’t find any matching global setting in Outlook 2016 for Mac. Under Tracking, select the Delivery receipt confirming the message was delivered to the recipient's e-mail server or Read receipt confirming the. When you mark an incoming message as ‘Read’ and there’s a Read Receipt request, you’ll see this popup.Ĭhecking “Don’t ask me about sending receipts again” will change the global setting to “Never send a read receipt”. The last is the default and most commonly used option. Tip: As a best practice, consider tracking only single messages of importance instead of all messages. Ask each time whether to send a read receipt Under Tracking, select the Delivery receipt confirming the message was delivered to the recipient's e-mail server or Read receipt confirming the recipient viewed the message check box.That’s Outlook for Windows, see below about Outlook for Mac. The setting is at File | Options | Mail | Tracking, just below where you set the options for outgoing Read Receipts. Here’s how to control what Outlook does when it gets a Read Receipt request with an incoming email.