How to request a read receipt

[Ben]

I use Outlook 2000 currently. I have received several E-mails in the past
from senders who, when I read them, get a pop-up screen prompt that states
the following: Microsoft Outlook, [name of sender] has requested a read
receipt to be sent when message '[name of message in SUBJECT field]' has been
read. Do you want to send a receipt?
I am a home user, and do not use Microsoft Exchange, but this prompt still
comes up; I have to answer it before the Outlook allows me to do anything
else. How do I set up an E-mail that I'm sending to request "a read receipt
"? I'm also going to upgrade directly to Office 2007 anon. Thank you. Ben

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

While composing the mail item go to the View menu > Options command and
select the receipt options.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I use Outlook 2000 currently. I have received several E-mails in the
past from senders who, when I read them, get a pop-up screen prompt
that states the following: Microsoft Outlook, [name of sender] has
requested a read receipt to be sent when message '[name of message in
SUBJECT field]' has been read. Do you want to send a receipt?
I am a home user, and do not use Microsoft Exchange, but this prompt
still comes up; I have to answer it before the Outlook allows me to
do anything else. How do I set up an E-mail that I'm sending to
request "a read receipt "?

When composing the message, click View>Options and check the box labeled
"Request a read receipt for this message".

 

[Ben]

I checked this. On My MS Outlook 2000, whether I go to the main screen, or
open up a new window to create an E-mail: when going to VIEW, there is no
OPTIONS option; ...and when I go to TOOLS, there is an OPTIONS option, but
then no RECEIPT options found. Please advise me. Thank you. Ben

While composing the mail item go to the View menu > Options command and
select the receipt options.

I use Outlook 2000 currently. I have received several E-mails in the past
from senders who, when I read them, get a pop-up screen prompt that states
the following: Microsoft Outlook, [name of sender] has requested a read
receipt to be sent when message '[name of message in SUBJECT field]' has
been
read. Do you want to send a receipt?
I am a home user, and do not use Microsoft Exchange, but this prompt still
comes up; I have to answer it before the Outlook allows me to do anything
else. How do I set up an E-mail that I'm sending to request "a read
receipt
"? I'm also going to upgrade directly to Office 2007 anon. Thank you.
Ben

 

[Ben]

I checked this. On My MS Outlook 2000, whether I go to the main screen, or
open up a new window to create an E-mail: when going to VIEW, there is no
OPTIONS option; ...and when I go to TOOLS, there is an OPTIONS option, but
then no RECEIPT options found. Please advise me. Thank you. Ben

I use Outlook 2000 currently. I have received several E-mails in the
past from senders who, when I read them, get a pop-up screen prompt
that states the following: Microsoft Outlook, [name of sender] has
requested a read receipt to be sent when message '[name of message in
SUBJECT field]' has been read. Do you want to send a receipt?
I am a home user, and do not use Microsoft Exchange, but this prompt
still comes up; I have to answer it before the Outlook allows me to
do anything else. How do I set up an E-mail that I'm sending to
request "a read receipt "?

When composing the message, click View>Options and check the box labeled
"Request a read receipt for this message".

 

[Brian Tillman]

I checked this. On My MS Outlook 2000, whether I go to the main
screen, or open up a new window to create an E-mail: when going to
VIEW, there is no OPTIONS option; ...and when I go to TOOLS, there is
an OPTIONS option, but then no RECEIPT options found. Please advise
me.

Is there a Tools>Options>E-mail Options>Tracking Options? I don't have OL
2000 with which to check.

 

[Ben]

Yes; thank you. I found this. However, it's under
TOOLS\OPTIONS\PREFERENCES\e-MAIL OPTIONS\TRACHING OPTIONS at the main Outlook
screen, not while composing an E-mail. Can you believe that there is no
where that I can find either in MS OL Help or MS KB about doing this? Now,
what you instructed applies to all sent messages; what I wanted to know
specifically is how to send a specific message requesting a receipt, without
applying this to all my send E-mails. Other than checking this feature,
sending the specific E-mail, and then unchecking it, is there any other way
to do this; thank you. Ben

 

[Ben]

I discovered the answer: In Outlook, when you create a new Message, click on
the Options button. You can set the request for a read receipt there. The
Options button is not under the View menu item, it is a button on the email.
I could not find anything either in the Help menu of MS OL or on the MS KB
about this. Thank you. Ben

 

[Brian Tillman]

Yes; thank you. I found this. However, it's under
TOOLS\OPTIONS\PREFERENCES\e-MAIL OPTIONS\TRACHING OPTIONS at the main
Outlook screen, not while composing an E-mail. Can you believe that
there is no where that I can find either in MS OL Help or MS KB about
doing this? Now, what you instructed applies to all sent messages;
what I wanted to know specifically is how to send a specific message
requesting a receipt, without applying this to all my send E-mails.
Other than checking this feature, sending the specific E-mail, and
then unchecking it, is there any other way to do this; thank you.

I don't have OL 2000 to look, but open a new message window and look for a
Preferences menu item, most likely in the File or Tools menu. I can't
imagine that there's isn't a per-message option to request a read receipt.