Disable/Remove Delivery/Read receipts

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Chas

Good afternoon,

I'm trying to get a frustrating project accomplished in Outlook 2003 & 2007.
I need to disable the option in a new email to request delivery or read
receipts. I've been working on this project off and on for nearly two months
without a clear solution.
If it can be accomplished by a registry setting or disabling of a control by
ID and then implementing in a group policy, that's fine.
I've used a nifty little tool called Outlook Spy to find the control id (35
if I'm not mistaken), but it will not disappear when I use a group policy to
disable it (I have installed the Outlook Admin Templates).
I can easily disable the option to always request delivery/read receipts in
Tools | Options | Email Options because that is a predefined option in group
policy, but a *new* email always give the option to request receipts.

Does anyone have any idea on how to do this?

Thanks!
 
D

Diane Poremsky [MVP]

Are you using exchange or windows smtp? if so, you could use an event sink
to remove them. otherwise, the global setting is in the registry but the
one-off setting is not.


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C

Chas

Diane,

We are using the standard SMTP that IIS installs when setting up exchange. I
did a little bit of research on those event sinks, and that seems like a
possible solution albeit a difficult one for me who has never written any VB
code.
And I gather from your reply that there is no way to disable the interface
in Outlook to not give delivery/read receipts when they create a new email,
right?

Thanks for your help.

Diane Poremsky said:
Are you using exchange or windows smtp? if so, you could use an event sink
to remove them. otherwise, the global setting is in the registry but the
one-off setting is not.


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
(e-mail address removed)

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
(e-mail address removed)

You can access this newsgroup by visiting
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newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


Chas said:
Good afternoon,

I'm trying to get a frustrating project accomplished in Outlook 2003 &
2007.
I need to disable the option in a new email to request delivery or read
receipts. I've been working on this project off and on for nearly two
months
without a clear solution.
If it can be accomplished by a registry setting or disabling of a control
by
ID and then implementing in a group policy, that's fine.
I've used a nifty little tool called Outlook Spy to find the control id
(35
if I'm not mistaken), but it will not disappear when I use a group policy
to
disable it (I have installed the Outlook Admin Templates).
I can easily disable the option to always request delivery/read receipts
in
Tools | Options | Email Options because that is a predefined option in
group
policy, but a *new* email always give the option to request receipts.

Does anyone have any idea on how to do this?

Thanks!
 

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