How do I tell if a message has been read?

[Guest]

After sending a message and clicking the "read receipt" box, how do you tell
if the message has been read?

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

After sending a message and clicking the "read receipt" box, how do you
tell
if the message has been read?

Depends upon who you sent it to. Generally speaking if you send a read
receipt request and the other person "reads" the message using a client
that supports read receipts, and a server that supports read receipts, and
in an organization that doesn't block receipts to the Internet...then you
will get a message back acknowleging that the message has been "read."

However, there are a lot of situations where read receipts, particularly
to users out on the Internet, don't actually work. So I wouldn't depend
upon them.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

And to add to what Ben said, there are those, like me, who turn off the
option wherever possible.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Mbalina asked:

| After sending a message and clicking the "read receipt" box, how do
| you tell if the message has been read?