Read Receipt in Microsoft Outlook 2010 and 2013 - Learning

How to ensure my email is read by recipient?

You can request a read receipt in Outlook to ensure your message is read by recipient. You will receive a message notification as each message is read.

To be notified about all messages

1. On the File menu, click "Options"
2. Click "Mail" of Outlook options
3. Check the checkbox "Read receipt confirming the recipient viewed the message"
4. Click "OK" 
   
   

   To be notified about a single message

5. In Outlook, click "New E-mail" to create new mail message
6. Click "Options"
7. Select the "Request a Read Receipt" check box

 

procedure no 2 :

After sending the email, sometime it becomes a frantic need to know when the recipient will start reading it, Outlook has an intrinsic feature which lets you know immediately when the person starts reading your message. By using Tracking, you can track down the email. This post elaborates how you can enable this feature.

Launch Outlook 2010, and from Home tab, click New E-mail.

Navigate to Options tab, and From Tracking pane enable Request a Read Receipt option, now click Send to send it to recipient.

By enabling this option, the recipient will be asked if he is willing to send the receipt back to the sender.