I just spoke to a client who told me… why are you calling me now 3 hours later … you could have told me 5 minutes after i sent it to you… I said… i just got back to the office and opened the email. it should be off by default not on… i have it set to ‘never send red receipts’ on Outlook O365 on my desktop, i thought it synced all my setting and i’m really disappointed with Microsoft because it is not. The protocol translator enables communication between Outlook and Exchange Online.” Exchange Online data is accessed via the publicly available REST APIs. The app is coded with the Outlook device API, a proprietary API that syncs commands and data to and from the app. This component routes data and translates commands, but it doesn’t cache user data.
#OUTLOOK READ RECEIPT FOR MEETING REQUEST ANDROID#
“Outlook for iOS and Android uses a stateless protocol translator component that is built and run in Azure. The reason for this is the architecture of the Outlook app and the infrastructure it connects to. When an Exchange Online mailbox has the ActiveSync protocol disabled, you may find that the Outlook app for iOS and Android mobile devices is still able to connect to the mailbox to send and receive emails. Perhaps this partly explains what is going on (Outlook app not using ActiveSync)? You’re done! Posted by Stephen Wagner at 11:09 AMġ5 Responses to “Disable auto read receipts being sent via mobile (Exchange ActiveSync) devices”
It’s a simple procedure using Outlook on the web (previously known as Outlook Web Access, a.k.a OWA). Now, with Microsoft Exchange 2016 you can disable this so that mobile devices don’t automatically send these read receipts out. This is bad for a number of reasons such as spam (this is a big one, where they try to validate e-mail addresses), legal reasons, you don’t have the time to respond and don’t want a read receipt sent yet, or you simply don’t send read receipts… This means that if someone sends you an e-mail, requests and read receipt, and you open it on your mobile device it will send a read receipt without prompting you or giving you a choice in the matter. Something that has bothered me for a very long time has been the fact that mobile devices (using Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync), automatically send read receipts if the sender has requested it without prompting the user.