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Add a Read Receipt to your mails

You can add a read receipt to your emails from the Settings menu.

Your Google Apps administrator will need to set this and it is an organisation wide setting. In the gApps control panel, go to Settings > Email, and turn on Read Receipts. You can choose to turn on receipts for just internal email addresses, maintain a list of external addresses that can have read receipts requested, or switch them on for all addresses. Once this is switched on, users will see a choice "Request read receipt" under the To: line.

Tip Update: In the new compose, Read Receipts can be found under the down arrow icon, bottom right of the compose window.

Comments/Feedback

Pete Weinman

I have a business account, and I am the admin. I enabled receipts in the domain management, but my users do not see it when they compose email. I looked under the "more" tab, as Google's help implies and under the cc as you implied. Stumped.

18 April at 14:13 • Reply to this comment • Edit

Rebecca Kohn I'm having the exact same problem. Please let me know if anyone figures this out.

23 May at 19:55 • Edit

lex B

Is there no way to get a read receipt on your private email account?

03 January at 18:50 • Reply to this comment • Edit

Bart van der Meer

I switched it on, though it is not showing anything to request a read receipt

13 November at 11:05 • Reply to this comment • Edit

Mark Williams Hi Bart. If you have Google Apsps for Business and have switched on Read Receipts in the control panel, the next time you log in and compose an email you will see Request read receipt as an option under the To field.

13 November at 12:23 • Edit

Mark Williams

Hi Andre, Naresh. Read receipts are only available to Google Apps for Business, Google Apps for Education and Google Apps for Government users. It is not a feature of the free account.

12 October at 09:43 • Reply to this comment • Edit

Andre Corriveau

I don't see any Read Receipt option either. ??

11 October at 21:45 • Reply to this comment • Edit

Naresh Yalamanchi

I m not getting read reciept option.

07 October at 16:37 • Reply to this comment • Edit