How to disable sending of return receipts?

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Is there any way to suppress the sending of return receipts in the Notes client? Sometimes it’s nice to be able to read a message without actually letting the sender know that you have done so. This is a feature that is available in OUtlook Express which I think would be handy in Notes.

Any ideas?

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Subject: How to disable sending of return receipts?

I use a simple agent that activates “Before mail arrives” that resets that field that Notes uses to determine if a return receipt is to be sent. The only problem is that a return receipt is NEVER sent for the mail message in question (as opposed to when you choose). The code looks like this:

@IsAvailable(@SetField(“ReturnReceipt”;“0”));SELECT @All

HTH

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Subject: RE: How to disable sending of return receipts?

I use the following LotusScript to check for, remove if found and change the subject line if a return receipt is found.

Sub Initialize

Dim session As New NotesSession

Dim db As NotesDatabase

Dim doc As NotesDocument

Dim RR As Variant

Dim Subject As Variant

REM Set session, db and doc

Set session = New NotesSession

Set db=session.CurrentDatabase

Set doc = session.DocumentContext

REM Check for return receipt, if there, remove and change subject to reflect change

RR = doc.GetItemValue("ReturnReceipt")

If RR(0) = "1" Then

	subject = doc.GetItemValue("Subject")

	Call doc.ReplaceItemValue ("ReturnReceipt", "0")

	Call doc.ReplaceItemValue ("Subject", "**Removed RR**: " & subject(0))

	Call doc.Save(True, True)

End If

End Sub

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Subject: How to disable sending of return receipts?

This is made at level of Server in the Domino.Not by client like in outlook express.

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Subject: How to disable sending of return receipts?

I know it’s not carma to do this but I use openNTF template from opentf.org. There is a parm for the client side called

enableRRControl=1 (something like that) in the notes.INI file that will give you the prompt for if you want to send the RR or not on the client end. But you need the openntf template in order to do this.

By your post this sounds more like the feature you are looking for.

Hope this helps

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Subject: How to disable sending of return receipts?

Especially when it’s spam that validates your email addy that way, eh?

You can uncheck your client preference “Mark documents read when opened in preview pane” (cleared by default in virgin installs), and then read the message in the preview pane. The return receipt isn’t sent until it’s actually opened if that pref isn’t set. Of course, this is a client-wide setting, not a document-specific one.

Yeah, the been-in-Outlook-for-how-long-now? feature of being prompted for confirmation (“This user is requesting a return receipt”) would be a nice feature add, wouldn’t it?

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Subject: RE: How to disable sending of return receipts?

Yeah, I knew that I could do this at the server level, but I didn’t necessarily want to have it thrust upon all of our users. Some people don’t mind sending receipt notifications, and I don’t want to kill this feature if they have a use for it.

Using the preview pane is a good idea, though. Normally I don’t have mine enabled, but I guess I’ll get in the habit.

Cheers!