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Originally Posted by rickh25345
Hi - looking for guidance /assistance please and could not find a solution elsewhere on this site. I really dislike receiving email that includes a request for a Read Receipt (RR) and currently have Outlook 2003 View setup to identify Inbox messages where a RR is requested.
I am using Customise View-Messages to display the Outlook field "Receipt Requested" = "Yes" and display this "Yes" message in Red in a new Inbox column titled RR (if that all makes sense). It works but it's clunky. I do this as I want to know who is sending me messages with the RR attribute enabled, without mehaving to open the message to find out.
What I'd really like to do is also filter/move those messages directly to the Deleted Items folder and then turn on "Always Send a Response" in Tracking so that the person sending the message will know exactly what's happening - the message has been deleted without reading. I cannot install any 3rd party add-ons as I'm in a locked-down Corporate environment.
I cannot find a way to set this filter up - any ideas appreciated. Thanks in advance for any assist .
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You could try creating a rule that checks the message header for the text "Disposition-Notification-To" and moves (or rather deletes) if it finds that. Probably won't work on messages sent internally within your company (as opposed to via the Internet) though.
I somehow doubt you're going to get the reaction you're hoping for, though. People will at first be perplexed, then they'll be taken aback then some of them will be irritated. A few may change their behavior, but I doubt many will be happy about it. Hopefully none of those people requesting read receipts are your boss. Why not just set Outlook to never return the receipt and go about your day as if they never requested one?
They'll never get the receipt they requested and you don't have to explain to people that you auto-delete messages with read receipts on them?