Outlook For Mac 2011 How To Track Delivery And Receipt Of An Email

An upcoming release of Outlook 2016 for Mac will get something that Outlook/Windows users take for granted: Read Receipts and Delivery Receipts. It’s hard to believe but the current and past versions of Outlook for Mac don’t have these features. Source: Microsoft The feature is now available in Outlook 2016 for Mac with the Slow Insiders version 15.34 (170515). Has also been added.

Delivery Receipt – a message comes back saying the email was accepted by the mail host for delivery. Read Receipt – a message comes back when the email was marked as Read. Neither Receipt is particularly reliable in practice. A message might be accepted for delivery but then removed or moved by a spam filter. The receiver can choose to not send a read receipt back.

Click the checkbox for Request a delivery receipt and/or Request a read receipt. Stickbot app. In Outlook 2013/2016 To apply to a single message: From your new email, click the Options tab. In the Tracking section, click the checkbox for Request a Delivery Receipt and/or Request a Read Receipt. To apply to all messages: Go to the File tab and select Options.

Long wait for Mac users It’s taken Microsoft six years to add a standard email feature. Outlook for Mac users must be a very patient lot.

Microsoft is boasting that adding Receipts answers the most common Outlook/Mac feature request. Little wonder, since it’s a key part of email, especially for business users.