Our Management have asked us to look into the following - 1. If an external sender requests a Read Reciept, then block that from even getting to our environment 2. If an internal user requests a Read Receipt from a mail going outside, then prevent that reciept request Does anyone know if either of the two are possible? Secondly, we also have partner organisations who we have set up as Remote Domains in Exchange....can we control Read Reciepts to them? Environment: Exchange 2007 SP3 on Windows 2008 Server, Outlook 2007 SP2 on Windows 7. Windows 2003 AD

Group Policy will allow you to stop users from requesting receipts, and also to control what happens to them. On the Second tab of the Properties of the Default Domain in Remote Domains (which is mislabelled), you can also deselect "Allow Delivery Reports" which will stop a lot of them. Restart Transport Service after making the change. Then to catch anything that does slip through, use Transport Rules to remove "Disposition-Notification-To" and/or "Return-Receipt-To" in the message headers, which will stop any others. The combination of those three things should pretty much stop all of them. Simon.Simon Butler, Exchange MVP Blog | Exchange Resources | In the UK? Hire Me.

To disable Read receipts, please refer to the following thread: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/exchangesvrclients/thread/22dd2535-39fc-47fd-83ce-0ddf02caf20e Thanks. Novak