How To Turn Off Read Receipts In Outlook
Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager which is owned and managed by Microsoft and made available as a part of the Microsoft Office suite applications. Microsoft Outlook is an email application, and it also incorporates a task manager, calendar, contact manager, note-taking, journal, and internet browsing, with a lot of other utility features.
In Microsoft Outlook, you can send read receipts to find out if someone has received and opened your email. You can also get read receipts from other people. It’s similar to messaging apps like WhatsApp, which uses different style checkmarks to denote the read state of your message.
You can not only disable read receipts that you send in Outlook, but also those that you receive. It is a two-way option. We’re going to show you how to turn off all read receipts in Microsoft Outlook.
How to Turn Off Requesting Read Receipts in Outlook
If you don’t want to send or receive any read receipts when you send out emails with Microsoft Outlook, you should do the following.
Go to File > Options > Mail and scroll down to the Tracking section.
Below that For all messages sent, request, you will look for two statements which are:
- Receipts for messages that are delivered which confirms that the message was delivered to the receiver email server
- Read receipt that confirms that the recipient viewed the message
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The first option describes when the recipient’s email service (such as Gmail or Yahoo messenger) has received the email, it does not necessarily require that your recipient has seen it in their message inbox.
The second option describes when the recipient has opened the message. Your recipient could have seen the email arrive in their inbox, but it doesn’t trigger a read-receipt request until they open the email and even then it will depend on their settings whether a response is sent.
Uncheck both of these and it will disable delivery and read receipts for messages that you send.
If you turn on receipts, Keep this in mind that not all email servers and email applications have support for them, so your request may be unanswered regardless.
When done, click OK.
How to Turn Off Receiving Read Receipts in Outlook
To prevent other persons from ever knowing that you have opened up their emails, you can automatically turn off read receipts.
Go to File > Options > Mail and scroll down to the Tracking section.
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Below For any message received that includes a read-receipt request, choose Never send a read receipt.
Additionally, if you want to decide or choose it on an individual email basis, select the Ask each time whether to send a read request.
To save your changes, click on OK.
Get More From Outlook
The Read receipts on Microsoft Outlook are just one of the many features on Microsoft Outlook that you might not have been aware of. Microsoft Outlook is a very powerful program that can greatly decrease and better your inbox and emailing experience.
