Force global acceptance of read receipts

[matchbox]

We have one user that wants everyone to have to send read receipts. We
are using outlook 2003 in CW with Exchange Server as the mail services
over citrix thin clients. We now need to investigate this and make a
corporate decision.

People here have mentioned being able to block or force read receipts
but i can't find any documentation on how to do it. I assume its group
policy / ORK template.

does any one know of some Ms guidance/instructions on this?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

This can be controlled with Group Policy Objects. For a primer on setting group policies with Outlook, see http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/policies.htm

However, IMO, this is a dumb idea, because read receipts are very inaccurate. A read receipt never tells you whether a person actually read the item, only whether they opened it or not. And it's not even accurate about that. I can read a message in the reading pane and then delete it, generating a receipt that said I deleted the item without reading it.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers