Confirm read on emails

xbrenx

Hi

I'm using Outlook for mac 2011. Is there a way of asking that an email recipient confirms they've read the email and if so, how?
Thanks in advance

st999

no

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xbrenx

st999 wrote: »

no

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That's not the answer I wanted, but thank you.

Do you know if it's possible using Gmail?

santer_2

Most versions of Outlook allow you to ask for a read receipt, however, the recipient can choose whether to send it or not

leemoss

santer wrote: »

Most versions of Outlook allow you to ask for a read receipt, however, the recipient can choose whether to send it or not

I don't think its possible in Outlook 2011 for Mac.

macman

Which I always refuse to do on principle. You might as well ring up and ask. Thankfully very few people seems to use read receipt these days.

santer_2

leemoss wrote: »

I don't think its possible in Outlook 2011 for Mac.

Checked and it isn't, though even if it were possible, with it being so easy to decline, it is hardly a reliable feature

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/Search/Search?SearchTerm=read+receipt&CurrentScope.ForumName=mac&CurrentScope.Filter=macoffice2011&askingquestion=false

However, if anyone wants to ask for it

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/product-feedback

xbrenx

ah okay...I didn't realise you could choose not to answer. Have sent an email to someone who is notorious for not answering, she never answers her phone or texts either and I thought sending one of these would prompt her to realise it's important to get in touch.

Thanks everyone for your help :-)

rmg1

Just to add another option, you could always ask for a delivery receipt if it's available.
That will say it's been delivered to the persons inbox and can't (AFAIK) be avoided.

danmanchester

You could try http://www.didtheyreadit.com/ on the free trial.

System

rmg1 wrote: »

Just to add another option, you could always ask for a delivery receipt if it's available.
That will say it's been delivered to the persons inbox and can't (AFAIK) be avoided.

That is not reliable.
Delivery receipt requests are designed for the Exchange type environment and it is the exchange server that generates the receipt.

Outside the corporate exchange environment any of the routing mail servers can and do respond to delivery receipt requests so it has no meaning. Also servers may be configured not to respond to requests.