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Good day,

During out TLI today for Illinois District 8 it was asked if there was a way to ask for Read Receipts. I thought that was a pretty god question. Please consider as an enhancement request to add an email option for "Request Read Receipt"

Thank you,
Art Anderson
Collinsville Toastmasters 4129

Sorry no, we will not be supporting read receipts. 
Many email clients no longer support read receipts as it let's spammers know you opened an email.

I concur w/ Brian.  Just to add to that, I have actually looked into this in the past.  However, it is difficult to implement in a way that supports multiple email platforms, does not make emails get filtered out as spam, and does not irritate users with the extra notification emails.  

Thus, even if you set the very valid spam concerns aside, the downsides really outweigh the upsides.  We are very sensitive to adding extra email notifications that could be flagged as spam.  That is one of the key reasons that a number of years ago I implemented the notifications pop-up when you login--it allows us to do system notifications without email.

I realize that Microsoft supports read receipts within its email clients such as Outlook, but I suspect that once those emails go outside of Microsoft's control to a different email client, things get dicier.