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No annoying pop-up - no receipt - happy me. It wasn’t long before I found it and silenced them permanently - telling Outlook never to send a receipt, no matter how nicely the sender asked.

(“No, you can’t know that I received and read your email - that’s my business, not yours.”) Eventually, I began poking around for a way to turn off those occasional, annoying pop-ups. My reflexive privacy twitch always caused my finger to click “no” every time that box appeared. I may have been naive in those days, but I was also (and still am) private and paranoid. I’d sometimes be surprised by a little pop-up that accompanied an email I’d just opened in Microsoft Outlook, asking me to please confirm receiving and reading that email: aka a “read receipt.” Back in the day when I was a young and naive pup, I didn’t pay much attention to how my email was set up.