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Old 06-05-2007, 07:45 AM
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Post 'Confirm Delivery / Confirm Read / Send Read Receipts' on a BlackBerry...

If you want to STOP a read receipt from being sent from your BlackBerry, you can:

1. Open the email, and while in it, do ALT+U (mark as unread) - does not work on the latest OS for the Curve!
2. Open the email, and while in it, Menu / Mark Unopened (for 8100, 8800 & possibly the Curve)...


Also, go to messages / menu options / email settings / messages services. From here you can choose the respective email account you want to edit the 'read receipt' settings for:

confirm delivery
confirm read
show read receipts
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On a related note:

This is how to receive a delivery confirmation, (by return email) for email messages sent between Blackberry devices.

This delivery confirmation is not merely a confirmation of a successful email relay, but a confirmation as to when your message has been delivered to the Blackberry handheld itself, ie. the recipient's Blackberry is switched on, within wireless coverage, and your email has been delivered to their Blackberry.

When composing the email on the Blackberry, or from within Outlook, in the subject line of the message type <confirm> followed by the text .
example: <confirm> You have 30 minutes to live

Note: Your recipient will receive the email with the additional word <confirm> in the subject line, so that this technique is certainly not for all occasions. Though on this occasion I don't think they would mind.
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What if we don't want this confirmation email? I am receiving way too many of these so I would like to turn it off, if at all possible. Where is this setting?

Thank you in advance. Katherine
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Old 06-06-2007, 06:32 AM
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Am a bit lost here, Kath00. Are you saying when you send a normal email from your BlackBerry, you get a confirmation email? Each time?
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<confirm> looks handy but is there a command for it being read?

where did Berryman find out this command from?
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Old 06-11-2007, 05:12 PM
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Berryman's info can be found on BlackBerry.com / support...
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Old 07-06-2007, 12:42 PM
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AKKK!! My 8300 is asking people for read receipts! How do I turn this off?
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xruth, go to messages / menu options / email settings / messages services - choose respective account - from here edit:

confirm delivery
confirm read
show read receipts
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thank you so much!
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I have gone to messages / menu options / email settings / messages services - for all my accounts and edited each of:

confirm delivery
confirm read
show read receipts

Selected "no" for each and saved, but my device still sent a "delivered" message to a requesting sender. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks!
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Maybe I've not explained myself properly. If a user sends you an email asking for a READ RECEIPT, BlackBerry WILL automaticall send one, period - unless of course you 'quickly' try what I stated above. But, I've noticed on some of the 'newer' (within the last two weeks) OS' it does not always support it...!
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Thanks. I have been a Treo user for years and just switched so I am still getting acclimated to the B'berry. Do you know if RIM is planning to address this issue so that the user can control all auto-generated responses?
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Not seen any info about it from them. But, it would be nice...
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Default How to stop read receipts

I tried the Alt-U, and found that it does not send the read receipt at that time, but does so, later when you actually open the mail to read it.
However, I think I have found a solution. To get around the issue of sending a read receipt, do as below:
Before opening a mail which is potentially 'read receipt requested',
Open a mail above or below that one - say, one which has already been opened and read earlier.
Now press N for 'next' or P for 'previous' to open the mail that you want to read.
In my testing, this does not generate any read receipt.

Hope that helps!
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Default Read Receipts

I tried both ways - using Alt-U first to mark it as read, and then moving towards the open using N or P. This worked perfectly - no read receipt.
I, then tried without using Alt-U, and still got great results - no read receipt.

Please try it out, and I feel certain, that at least one of the above ways, will definitely help.

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