This seems a strange omission, making us wonder if we’ve overlooked some Read Receipt settings in Outlook 2016 for Mac. Seemingly, you can turn Read Receipts responses totally off but no way to reverse that. However, the first time you get a Read Receipt request, the same pop-up appears as in Outlook for Windows.Ĭhecking “Don’t ask me about sending receipts again” will change the global setting to not sending Read Receipts. There’s no global option we can find for Read Receipt responses. We can’t find any matching global setting in Outlook 2016 for Mac. When you mark an incoming message as ‘Read’ and there’s a Read Receipt request, you’ll see this popup.Ĭhecking “Don’t ask me about sending receipts again” will change the global setting to “Never send a read receipt”. Then, they send you a read receipt and inform you that the message has been opened. We set a mail header while sending mail from code which is then processed by the mail server and the sender of the. But the problem is not every mail server supports this kind of request from the code. The last is the default and most commonly used option. 1) They bypass your emails through their servers and insert a special tag (HTML code actually) in the body of your emails, so that once the email is opened that code is ran and their servers get notified. When we send e-mail through code we can request a delivery notification and read receipt from the receiver, similar to the way we do in outlook. Summary: To keep emails unread, go to File > Options > Advanced.
The setting is at File | Options | Mail | Tracking, just below where you set the options for outgoing Read Receipts.
Outlook read receipt not working how to#
Here’s how to control what Outlook does when it gets a Read Receipt request with an incoming email.