Davey said:
I have sent an email to a company who helps you to set up your home to be
rented outto foreigners. They have received my email, but the problem is that
i keep on receiving a "confirmation that my email was read" in my inbox. I am
now receiving that confirmation message about 1500 a day. How do i stop it.
The receiver of my message is not helpful at all.
You asked for a read receipt for your e-mail (it's a header that gets added
to your outbound e-mail). They have their e-mail client configured to
acknowledge those requests by sending back a new e-mail which is the read
receipt. What might've happened is that the read receipt got stuck in their
Outbox folder. Everytime their e-mail client does a mail poll (which is
often scheduled but includes anytime they manually or programmatically send
e-mail), it sees the item still in the Outbox folder and sends it, and sends
it again and again because it is not getting deleted from that folder.
The problem is not on your end. You will need to contact whomever you sent
your e-mail that requested a read receipt and ask them to cleanup their
Outbox folder or mail server because *they* are repeatedly sending you their
acknowledgment e-mail. You asked for a read receipt and they are certainly
"giving it" to you.
If they are unwilling to resolved THEIR problem then why do you continue
receiving any e-mails from them? You could add them to your Blocked Sender
list (but that ends up wasting space on known unwanted e-mails in your Junk
folder). You could define a rule that permanently deletes any e-mails from
them. The disk space still gets consumed for their permamently deleted
e-mails until whenever Outlook or you get around to compacting its message
store. It would be better if you defined a server-side rule up in your
account (i.e., on the server) to delete those known unwanted e-mails instead
of wasting the bandwidth and disk space on your end to retrieve and get rid
of the unwanted e-mails. Before you do this, and because they want the
service you are affording THEM, tell them that you won't be participating in
their program anymore unless they correct THEIR problem on their end. If
they don't fix the problem, you're out of their program and you will
permanently delete all e-mails from them.
You'll have to decide whether this foreigner housing assistance program to
which you are enrolled is worth getting abused by their e-mail system.
