'Confirm Delivery / Confirm Read / Send Read Receipts' on a BlackBerry...

[HighVoltageBlonde]

Originally Posted by G8tor

I have to put a note in every email I send not to bother with the read receipts. This is the most aggravating thing to me. Hoping an OS update can change this.

I don't believe it. They ignore me on the official forum now because I've complained so much.. I've had a BB Bold for a few days and every time I get one thing figured out something else comes up. Now people are asking why they're getting read mail receipts, and from what I've seen here I can't stop them. That's ridiculous. I don't even know where to go in my phone .. have settings/options/... but no email, have "manage email accounts" on the menu but no options there.. any help is appreciated. I want to turn all that stuff off, and I am hoping there's a way I can stop those receipts from going out.
TIA

[albee 1]

I think part of the problem is posting on a subject header that is 3 years old. Second if you want an answer you need to let people know what your BB model is and the OS. I have a 8330 and from my main message folder I can hit Menu, go to options and select Email Settings from there you can select yes or no for all your receipts. Hope this helps.

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[HighVoltageBlonde]

I posted a new thread also, got some help but it didn't solve the problem. I had already gone into the settings and unchecked send receipt, anyway my first reply here I thought I quoted someone who had a 9700 who was having problems. All of the BB's seem to have their idiosyncrasies. I can take some comfort in knowing I'm not the only one, after reading around the different forums. I think the new thread ("9700 won't stop sending read mail request receipts") didn't get any more responses because people glanced at it in the list and saw that it already had replies. 2 of them were mine, asking for more help.

[rick0415]

I saw somewhere that if you had an individual email that you wanted a delivery confirmation for you could type something in the address line like <confirm>. Does anyone know how that works?

[traveler]

Originally Posted by rick0415

I saw somewhere that if you had an individual email that you wanted a delivery confirmation for you could type something in the address line like <confirm>. Does anyone know how that works?

That’s correct. The phrase <confirm> needs to be the very first thing on the subject line. Your receipt (generated by the device itself) will contain your subject line read back to you.

Any Blackberry with current firmware that receives a message with this phrase on the subject line, will answer back and report it’s existence to you, as well as give you the exact date and time your message landed on the device itself. Unlike the delivery receipts that respond to Outlook formatted messages, the one you mentioned doesn’t need a special email program, plain text will get you a response. Note that the device owner has no control over it, it was written into the firmware by RIM.