You have the option to always send a "Read Receipt", never send one or have Outlook ask you each time if you want to send one.

Options-Mail-Tracking.

Yes. I think the default is to ask but I have mine set to never. People that ask for read receipts ...... just don't do it.

Or maybe they just want to know that you got it? With spam filters and the like it never does any hard to ask in my opinion. There is no obligation to reply.

Doesnt bother me any, and on the whole its less invasive than having him call, which would appear to be the alternative.

No i mean the receiver of the email has the option to send the receipt or not.

Edit: Re-reading, i thinks that what you said.

Adding a read receipt request says to the recipient "I don't trust you to reply to me without me forcing you to do so because I'll know whether you have read this or not".

If it's a prospective employer it's not worth the risk that they won't see it this way imo.

By George I think he's got it.

It says "I dont trust my email not to have been filtered into your junk mail" actually.

One or more person at my work picked up a virus that resulted in their emails sending out a ton of spam. This in turn resulted for a while with the company domain name ending up on some of the AV spam lists, so mail sent to people who subscribed to those services automatically had all mail from our business end up in the junk folder.

Only because of some people using read receipts did it become quickly obvious that there was a problem that could be rectified. Thats the story I was told anyway...

Sure, that's your perception of it.

If the OP is mailing you it will be fine, if they are mailing me then their email will be ignored. Why take the risk that an employer will take the same view as me? I bet I'm not that unusual in not liking read receipt requests.

(obviously this won't work if your job is selling viagra, or watches, or penis extenders)

If they want to hire him and are decent employers who want to address his concern, then they will reply anyway.

Honestly you and richo are the first people who have ever expressed any negative vibe about dealing with a read receipt request in my experience. By all means dont return it, but I think you are reading way too much into it. I certainly dont expect an instant response, I just want to know it made it to your inbox and that you are not away from work for the next three weeks.

Funnily enough you are the first person I've heard of that doesn't find them irritating in some way. I don't think I'm reading too much into it - magnumpi suggested it in the first place because he thought it would be less likely to be ignored.

Anyway - there are a couple of people at work who use them a lot. Well they did, I don't know if they still do because my email is set to never send them and not tell me about it.

LOL I must admit that myself and many of my colleagues are the same when it comes to read receipts. When prompted we always decline to send the receipts back. Just don't like them. .

Anyways - agree with what everyone is saying. Send an email - only showing you are still interested and I think looks better than not showing interest. My process to get a job via emails took months when I think in UK it would have been done in a couple of weeks. Things move slow here. I always chased after a period of 2 weeks with no response - sometimes even a week

On the calling bluff bit.

I had a similar positive response from my current employer and emailed them saying we over in a few weeks and could i pop in for a chat.

Admitidly i was self employed and we were planning a 2 week trip anyhooo, and i do have rellies ere. We brought the trip fwd and all was good. Met the big boss within a few weeks and got the job.

Its not a lie if you guna do it, is it?

Ok update!!

We emailed asking if there was any progress (without the read receipt) no reply as yet but then again we dont expect instant replies so now just waiting to see what happens.

We are actually going to Calgary in October for 2 weeks so a face to face meeting will be our next strategy.

We have arranged 2 other meetings while we are there so still keeping all options open.

Thanks for all the advice, really do appreciate it.

That's what the Out of Office reply is for .