Recently i decided to start using Microsoft Outlook 2007 instead of Windows Mail which comes default with Vista, now in Windows Mail i counted a total of 5 simple clicks to turn on read receipts, so every email i sent requests one – you can see a tutorial for how to turn on read receipts for Window Mail here - in Outlook it takes a few more, as shown below.

Firstly click the Tools tab in the menu and select “Options”.

Now on the next option simply select “E-mail Options…” which will open (yet) another menu.

And now on this menu if you select “Tracking Options…”  you will be presented with the final menu.

Now on this menu you can see it gives you a tick box of “Read Receipt” tick this box to enable read receipt requests.

Additionally you can set other settings below, to either Always send a read receipt, never send one or to always ask you if you want to send one each time you send an email.

Hopefully you found this tutorial quick and easy in explaining how to request read reciepts in Outlook.

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This is a simply little tutorial on how to use or turn on Read Receipts in Windows Mail.

First go the tools menu and select “Options…”.

On the window above select the receipts tab, now you are presented with multiple settings for read receipts.

Tick the box for “Request a read reciept for all sent messages” and click OK.

And that’s it! Simple and easy, additionally of course you can choose if you wish to be notified every time about to request a read receipt or if they should be sent automatically.

Hopefully you found this tutorial helpful, so please comment!