Re: Read Receipts and Sent Items, Read receipts sent in spite of setting to the contrary

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From: Jeff Stephenson [MSFT] (stephenson_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/11/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:46:53 -0800

What version of Outlook do you have? I believe that this is fixed in
Outlook 2003 and in a service-pack for Outlook 2002 (either SP-2 or the
forthcoming SP-3). 

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Jeff Stephenson
Outlook Development
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"Bruce Hoffman" <bhoffman@workingmachines.com> wrote in message
news:#C0MhLkBEHA.3524@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> I have configured Outlook to not send read receipt responses however when
I
> select a group of emails and mark them as READ or if I select an email
> folder and mark it as "Mark All as READ" a read receipt is sent anyway. I
> will be very grateful if someone can tell me how to turn this off (even if
> it requires VBA).
>
> Also, read receipts do not show up in sent items. Is there some way to
make
> them show up in the sent items folder.
>
> These two features together are somewhat of a security issue as they allow
> someone to send you junk, if you happen to filter such emails as junk and
> put them into a junk folder (just in case of a false positive) and mark
> groups of these emails as READ after you review them, senders of such junk
> emails will be notified if they include a read receipt request to Outlook
> users.
>
>

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