Read Receipt

[xyz1213]

hi,

is there any way i could prevent someone from recieving a "read receipt" for mail i read of theirs? thanks.

 

[Marcs41]

Yes, you turn OFF all automatic replies to the internet.

Marc
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[DanMIS]

Outlook XP and 2003 allow you to decide if you want a return receipt sent on a mail-by-mail basis.

 

[Marcs41]

DanMIS, that is useless as you do not always have control over wht users do.
Blocking it at server level makes sure.

Marc
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[gudguy]

If its only one or few users, have a rule that deletes the messages.

 

[rkatyal]

Third party utility like Mail Essentials from GFI will let you configure that at the Server level.

You can also write your own Event sink. I am sorry I do not know how to write Event Sinks, but I am sure you could get help with it somewhere on the web.

You basically write an event sink which occurs everytime an email arrives at your exchange server that contains the Read receipt request. It will strip the request from the Email and the read receipt will not go out.

On the client level (outlook) it does not work very well. I know if you are worried about individual mailbox there are third party tools available for Outlook that will do the same thing.

 

[Marcs41]

Why use third party tools or program Sinks for something that is in built in Exchange with a simple checkbox?

Marc
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[billieT]

Here's an event sink how-to. It looks fine if you're comfortable with vbscript or jscript

http://www.vamsoft.com/orf/howto-readreceipt.asp

Also, naturally, you can disable it using Group Policy and the Office (2003,XP, whatever) adm files. The setting (for Office 2003, should be similar for the others) is:

Outlook 2003
--Tools|Options
----Preferences
------Email Options
--------Tracking Options
Process receipts on arrival (yes/no)

Very easy and granular if you want to apply the GPO to specific OUs.

If it's just for YOUR machine, you can edit the Registry, assuming you have local admin rights, and there isn't a GPO that specifically ENABLES receipts:

Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options\General
Set AutoProcRcpts to 0 or 1 (probably 0!)

 

[Marcs41]

So far, we see no respons from xyz123...

Marc
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