How to request a read receipt in Microsoft Outlook and know when someone has opened your email
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When you send someone an email, you don't know when it gets read. So if you don't get a reply, it's hard to tell if it was ever read at all.
Outlook offers a "read receipt" tool to help you know when the recipient has opened your email. A read receipt is a brief automated reply that confirms for you that an email has been opened.
How to request a read receipt in Outlook 1: There is also an option to request a delivery receipt, but that feature generally only works if you are using a Microsoft Exchange email account.While handy, it's far from foolproof. The recipient has the option to refuse to send the read receipt, and some email programs disregard read receipts entirely. Nonetheless, if you want to send an email with a read receipt, here are two ways to do it.
2. Before you send the email, click "Options" at the top of the message window.
3. Click the checkbox for "Request a Read Receipt."4. Send the message. You will receive an automated email reply.
2. Then click "Options."
3. In the Outlook Options dialog box, click "Mail" in the navigation pane on the left.
4. In the "Tracking" section, find the section labeled "For all messages sent, request:" and then click the checkbox for "Read receipt confirming the recipient viewed the message."5. Click "OK" to save your changes. Now a read receipt will be requested automatically with every outgoing message.
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