How do I stop my iPhone from sending email read receipts to senders? I do not wish to have people know everytime I view their email. Is there a way to prevent this?
iPhone 4S
Good news -- after much frustration and digging into this more, I figured out a way to avoid sending a Return Receipt (Read Receipt) from an iPhone when using an Exchange account (and this should be applicable in other cases if occurs in non-Exchange environment). In any newer iOS version, you can reply by sliding to the left, tap "More" and then tap "Reply". That allows you to open the message and if you don't send a reply and simply cancel, it remains as "New" (unread) and never sends a receipt. Gotta test more, but easy way around it until it's an option added by Apple. Please note that I worked through this with multiple Exchange admins, and this is an issue with the device as iOS triggers the Read Receipt outside of Exchange settings. Even with OWA settingn disabled, Outlook local client disabled (regardless of Outlook version), the iPhone will trigger a Read Receipt and you have no way around it, which is definitely an problem. Please note that using the "Edit" option (as if you were going to delete specific messages) to view w/o triggering a Read Receipt didn't work -- as you can't view the entire message, at least in the latest iOS version. I saw that suggestion in this thread but not viable.
Just nice to have at least one workaround.
Enjoy.
I had the same problem before.
Outlook software cannot send read receipts. You should open your email account in the mail server and go to Settings to stop to send read receipts.
You're welcome
It's bad, cause I don't want to confirm existence of mail account to spammers.
Yep - I agree - if I accidentally click on a 'spam' email - the sender gets a receipt - not good.
Anything been done about this yet?
It would be nice if Apple could figure out how to do this in iOS like other phone OS developers have.
stop sending read receipts
