Silent read receipt so recipient does not know message being track

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I work for a large law firm which just migrated from Groupwise to Exchange.
Users are accustomed to viewing properties of their sent mail which will show
when/if a message they sent was opened and read by the recipient without
notifying the recipient . With the read receipt, no matter how enabled, eg
by checking under tracking options, enabling on a per message basis, or via a
rule, the recipient will get a notification that the sender is requesting a
read receipt, which is annoying. Is there a way the sender can track whether
a message has been read by the recipient without notifying the recipient?

 

[Dmitry Streblechenko]

No. And it would be a pretty serious privacy issue if the recipient's mail
client sent anything without the user at least getting a chance to avoid
that.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

 

[Joseph Hume]

Exchange Server does that by default. You can't disable it anywhere I
have found...

 

[Dmitry Streblechenko]

Tools | Options | Preferences | E-mail Options | Tracking Options.
Exchange will generate a delivery receipt, but the read receipts are subject
to the preferences set in the "Tracking Options" dialog box.

Dmitry Streblechenko (MVP)
http://www.dimastr.com/
OutlookSpy - Outlook, CDO
and MAPI Developer Tool

 

[MmcS]

hi there !

Dmitry is right but the preferences in "Tracking Options" dialog box is
somehow disabled in my computer. I noticed this when I read a mail of my
colleg. 2 days ago outlook has asked me whether I want to send a read
response or not. Does anybody know how to enable the preferences once again ?
Can I do that from regedit ?? Is there anyway to bypass the system ?

"Dmitry Streblechenko":