Still with me? Ok so if we circle back to the original Exchange 2003 kb it should be noted that those instructions only prevent INCOMING read receipts from entering your org. The mime content type of a delivery report is a multipart/report report-type=delivery-status.Ī read receipt is defined in RFC 2298 and has a mime content type of multipart/report report-type=disposition-notification.Īctual read receipt found in the wild below:Ī further thing to note is that delivery reports originate from the system administrator or postmaster or Microsoft Exchange Recipient account (depending on which version of Exchange we are talking about) while Read Receipts come from the recipient that has requested a receipt. A delivery report is defined in RFC 1891. Without getting too much into RFCs, a read receipt is not a delivery report. While you are reading that you may notice the first sentence which mentions how editing the Remote Domain 'Do not send delivery reports' will NOT block read receipts from entering/leaving your org (told you we'd come back to that). You can read about this in all its glory here. As you know all the relevant settings were kept in the IIS metabase (taken from AD during the DS2MB 1 way process or natively there) so when it was requested that the ability to block read receipts be put into the product we obliged with a hotfix that allowed the creation of a key in the metabase to block these (after it was discovered that checking off 'Do not send delivery reports' on the remote domain object did not accomplish this. In Exchange 2003 we used the IIS SMTP engine. Step 6 : In the “Tracking” section, select “Request a Delivery Receipt” and / or “Request a Read Receipt”, depending upon your choice. Related info how to configure other mail setting in Microsoft Outlook 2013.A question that comes up often enough to merit a post is: 'How does one block read receipts from leaving or entering my org?'Īnd to answer that we need to go into the way back machine to Exchange 2003. If you want a delivery receipt or read receipt for the current email or message you are typing, click on “Options” in the message window. Step 5 : The above settings are applicable for all new messages you will compose and send. We have selected both the options – “Delivery receipt confirming the message was delivered to the recipient’s email server” and “Read receipt confirming the recipient viewed the message” (refer the image below). Step 4 : Now scroll down and go to “Tracking” section and then tick the options if you want “Delivery receipt” or “Read receipt”. Step 3 : Click on “Mail” as shown in the figure below. Step 2 : Now on the left side of “Account Information” dialog box, click “Options” When you are using Microsoft Outlook 2013, you can easily configure receipt notifications. When you send an email to your contact, you may want to know, when the specific email message is read or opened.

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