How can I withhold Read Receipts to specified User?

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Chris Mitchell

I have a colleague who routinely asks for a Read Receipt for absolutely
everything, which I find annoying. He has resisted all efforts to stop
this, what I consider to be, bad practice.

Is there anyway within an Outlook 2003 V 11.0 Microsoft Exchange Server
environment that I can, without sending a Read Receipt, prevent the dialogue
box asking me whether or not I want to send a RR from popping up when I
receive messages from this user?

Could a rule be developed to do this?

Ideally I would like to be able to do this for this one user only, so that
if anyone else asked me for a RR I could continue to decide on a case by
case basis.
 
Since you only want to change it for one person then you may opt to use a
Rule that basically states: If email arrives from *** with **Read Receip
Request*** on subject then do the following ****.

The other option is to make the change under Options Preferences tracking
but this would affect all request.
 
I suppose copying his messages and deleting the first unread and marking the
second read a few min later is not an acceptable response? :) Or read in
preview and never mark as read...

If I recall from my tests (many moons ago), opening the message from a pst
that is not your default does not return a receipt - so if your company
allows psts, move his messages to a pst to read them.
 
I don't think this would work, since 'Read Receipt' doesn't appear in the
Subject. I get a pop up box which states 'XXX has requested a Read Receipt'
with buttons to send or not send.

I've looked but I can't find 'Read Receipt' or any other unique identifier
in the header either.

Any other ideas?
 
I can read the messages without sending a Read Receipt, but I am annoyed by
the pop up box which states 'XXX has requested a Read Receipt' with buttons
to send or not send, and having to click the No button to get rid of the pop
up.

Any other ideas?
 
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