Have you ever sent an email and thought, “Boy, it would be nice if I knew that so-and-so received my email”; instead of wondering if your email got caught up in spam?
In most email accounts there is an Option menu where you can select a “Request a read receipt for this message.” Way back when, I used to have a default setting to notify me of read receipts on all outgoing emails, but then my Inbox became much more out of control. Now I only select the Read Option on emails that I need to know if the recipient received it.
Here is how you do it:
When composing an email in Outlook, select the Options menu. This will bring you to a “behind the scene” menu for your email. Then select the box next to “Request a read receipt for this message.” When the recipient opens your email, they will be asked to confirm receipt. If they select yes, then a receipt will automatically be emailed to you. However, the recipient does have the option to select no, which then defeats the reason why you wanted a read receipt in the first place.
You can also select the box under Options entitled “Request a delivery receipt for this message.” But this will only notify you when the has been received by the recipient’s email server, and does not mean they read the email.
