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We have one user that wants everyone to have to send read receipts. We

are using outlook 2003 in CW with Exchange Server as the mail services

over citrix thin clients. We now need to investigate this and make a

corporate decision.



People here have mentioned being able to block or force read receipts

but i can't find any documentation on how to do it. I assume its group

policy / ORK template.



does any one know of some Ms guidance/instructions on this?


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This can be controlled with Group Policy Objects. For a primer on =

setting group policies with Outlook, see =

http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/policies.htm



However, IMO, this is a dumb idea, because read receipts are very =

inaccurate. A read receipt never tells you whether a person actually =

read the item, only whether they opened it or not. And it's not even =

accurate about that. I can read a message in the reading pane and then =

delete it, generating a receipt that said I deleted the item without =

reading it.=20



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