Read reciepts on emails

[mollykins]

I'd never heard of them before today.

If the person you send a message to doesn't necessarily need to reply, could you send a read reciept request to them to click on, to show that you did read the email? Is that the point of them?

Have you ever sent/ replied to one?

[milly143]

You can send an e-mail to someone and request a receipt that comes through like an e-mail to you saying the person has read your e-mail. However they will get the option to not respond so you may never know if they have read it.

[mollykins]

Was i right in my description of them ,and their purpose?

[mollykins]

I got an email from the boss of an engineering company with a request for a read reciept, and just wanted to check what they were . . . .thanks.

[mollykins]

Cheers :)

[tiggerblue10]

I use them only for important emails at work. I wouldn't bother for just general stuff that doesn't need urgent actioning. If I send out a group email to the whole of my unit (approx 200 staff) then I don't as it would clog up my inbox unless again if its important information. A lot of them delete the emails and I CAN TELL! Lol.

[milly143]

I don't really understand how you have worded it but yes, you will get a reply saying the message has been read if the click 'yes' to the request. It's only an automated reply though, not one they can write in.

[Prudie]

I use them at work all the time. It tells you when/whether someone has read your e-mail but on our system the receiver does not know if you've ticked that option or not. Their use is you can say to someone 'well you did you know because you read my e-mail on Feb 1st at 10.28' for example.

[mollykins]

It's his company that i'm doing the maths in engineering challenge with and I needed to ask him something that'll go in our presentation, so maybe he wanted to make sure I got the answer, or could hsi emails be set to request a read reciept?

[milly143]

His e-mails can be set to send them automatically. I get them all the time from one person and keep telling him to stop asking for the receipt because when I click yes or no it crashes my system. It's a right pain in the tush.

[NazNomad]

I have used them (sent and received) on important emails, it removes that nagging doubt that your email might not have got there.

[woofgang]

he has probably set all his emails to request read receipts. When I was project managing in the NHS, I could tell when most folk had received my email, read it or (ha ha) deleted it unread..they (poor deluded fools) used to choose "send receipt" and "don't ask me again" from the outlook options and bingo they were unwitting pawns in my game (hollow echoing laughter)
well you've got to get your fun where you can eh?

[mollykins]

:P

[boxtops]

We have a facility at work so the sender can actually see whether we've opened their emails or not - shows at least we've looked at if not actioned it. I rarely bother myself unless it's to someone I know is really bad at responding to emails and I need to know they looked at it.