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How to turn off read receipts in Outlook

While read receipts are usually associated with social media or mobile messaging apps like WhatsApp How to read WhatsApp messages without alerting the sender How to read WhatsApp messages without alerting the sender Have you ever wanted to read WhatsApp messages without alerting the sender? WhatsApp without activating "read receipts"? Here are three easy ways to do just that! Read More Microsoft Outlook, for example, has read receipts, but they are not turned on by default, unlike recipients in social media or messaging apps, they can refuse to show read receipts on a case-by-case basis.

To access the settings go to File> Options> Mail> Tracking . You'll find options on how to find out if recipients have opened your message and how to let people know you've received their messages. Also, unlike many other services that offer read receipts, disabling yours doesn't mean you can't get read receipts from others.

Do not request read receipts

If you don't want to request or receive read receipts for when you send email, make sure that “Delivery receipt confirming that the message was delivered to the recipient's email server” and “Read receipt confirming that the recipient viewed the message.” are both unbridled .

Do not send read receipts

To prevent people from knowing you've opened their emails, under "For any received message that includes a read receipt request.", be sure to check Never send a read receipt . If you want to review them on a case-by-case basis, select Ask every time to send a read receipt.

How to turn off read receipts in Outlook

Which settings in Outlook do you prefer? Let us know in the comments.