How to Prevent Read Receipts
Microsoft Outlook is an email management application that can help you track when a user receives one of your email messages by using a feature called "read receipts." A "read receipt" alerts the sender that the email message has been viewed. While this feature can be helpful when used between friends or work colleagues, it can also be employed by spammers (senders of unsolicited advertisement messages) to track email addresses. By sending a read receipt back to the spammer, you are verifying your email address -- and will therefore be sent more spam. To avoid this situation, turn off read receipts.
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Instructions
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Launch "Microsoft Outlook 2010."
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Click the "File" menu, then "Options" to open the Outlook Options window.
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Click "Mail" in the left panel, then scroll down in the right panel to the section headed "Tracking." In the subsection called, "For any message received that includes a read receipt request," select the option, "Never send a read receipt." Alternatively, select the last option, "Ask each time whether to send a read receipt," which will allow you to decide case-by-case whether to send a receipt or not.
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Click "OK" to confirm the new settings and close the window.
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