Email Recipients Shouldn't get Option to send Read Receipt

[Guest]

I checked the Microsoft Communities to see if there was any way to circumvent
having email receipients be given the option to send a "read receipt". It
seems many other users have asked the same question.
The point is - I would prefer that people I send emails to don't know I am
tracking the email. In fact, now that I know that people have to actually
choose whether or not to send me a read receipt, I'm less likely to use the
tracking option in the first place - which defeats the whole purpose of
wanting to know if people have read your email to begin with.
This is a new addition, that wasn't a issue in previous versions of Outlook
- I would encourage Microsoft to scrap it in the next version.

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[Guest]

It's called invasion of privacy. If someone is sending mail and getting a
reciept that they opened their mail on this date and time and without theri
knowledge I can guarentee there'd be some seriously pissed off people. I
could also guarentee I wouldn't be using the software anymore...you're
basically suggesting MS adds spyware to Outlook.
If it's within a company your IT person should have records of when and
where mail is going.

 

[Guest]

So I don't get it - Are you in favour of "read receipts" or not.

Read Receipts have been part of Outlook for years...someone sends me an
email, and when I open it, the sender gets a receipt back that lets them know
I have read their email. There's no privacy issues involved here. But now you
get a dialogue box popping up that ask's whether or not you wish to send this
Read Receipt to the email sender...this is a pain.

 

[Guest]

You can set yours to always send read reciepts when someone sends you
something. However if you request one and the user chooses not to send you
one that should be their choice.
For instance: At work, Bob sends me an email and wants a receipt because he
wants it done right away. I slack off and wait 3 days and just tell him I
didn't read it. Then the employer should have you set up to automatically
send one back without you having to click anything so it's always done. That
option is there. Sure the user can turn it off, but if it's always on how do
they know?
However, I am at home and get an email because Bob wants a favor. He
requests a read receipt. I choose no because it's none of his business when I
read my email from home. That's what spyware does...tracks your everymove on
your personal PC.
So I disagree for that reason...I use Outlook at home and if people are
getting read receipts back from my PC without my knowledge I would not like
it one bit. Enough not to use the software...that's where the privacy issue
occures. Work is one thing...company PC, company decision. Home PC, Home
decision.

 

[Guest]

I see what you mean in terms of personal/home use of Outlook - definitley not
goning to argue that....but then again, no product is going to be perfect for
everyone, and I would guess that for the most part, Outlook is used by people
in an office setting, as opposed to Yahoo/Hotmail/Aol for home users. So you
have to go with what the majority of users prefer, and my guess(though could
be wrong) is that most Outlook users would prefer an automatic read receipt
be sent back when requested.

 

[Guest]

Quite possibly. That's why there's an agree/disagree. I use Outlook at home
because of my palm and because it's a lot sweeter than OE...I personally
wouldn't like it...however I could be the minority here. There's a few
options I'd like, but others probably don't. Just throwing out another
opinion on it to think about. You are right that it's posted here alot. I
actually have people at work ask me about that. Mostly managers. They'd agree
with with you.

 

[Brian Tillman]

But now you get a dialogue box popping up that ask's
whether or not you wish to send this Read Receipt to the email
sender...this is a pain.

Then click Tools>Options>E-mail Options>Tracking Options and select "Always
send a response" at the bottom and the "Process requests and responses on
arrival" at the top.

 

[SgtRich]

I checked the Microsoft Communities to see if there was any way to circumvent
having email receipients be given the option to send a "read receipt". It
seems many other users have asked the same question.
The point is - I would prefer that people I send emails to don't know I am
tracking the email. In fact, now that I know that people have to actually
choose whether or not to send me a read receipt, I'm less likely to use the
tracking option in the first place - which defeats the whole purpose of
wanting to know if people have read your email to begin with.
This is a new addition, that wasn't a issue in previous versions of Outlook
- I would encourage Microsoft to scrap it in the next version.

So, if Microsoft adapted your request, every time a spammer sent a
piece of spam to your email address, beside verifying that he had a
valid email address for you, you would have Outlook automatically
reply to the spammer that you have, in fact, read his piece of trash?

 

[Asher_N]

Users, maybe. I can tell you that I force 'ne receipt' on my network for
privacy, bandwidth and storage. My domain does not send out DR or NDRs
either. If the message is that important, pick up the phone.

 

[Guest]

GroupWise provides a way to know if people on your network (internal
employees) have read the email you have sent out. You just right click your
sent email and it displays the date and time. For outside people it doesn't
have that ability.