I am programmatically "reading" e-mails using WebDav. I am also deleting these e-mails when I've finished having my way with them, however, this is causing an interesting problem. Each time I delete an e-mail the original sender is getting a not read response. I have logged into OWA and checked the option Do not automatically send a response but this doesn't seem to help.
Is there ANY way to remove the request for read receipt from the e-mail before deleting it??
this will do what you want, but it's a rather sledgehammer sized fix, but think it may be the only way...
We decided that we didn't want to make any modifications to our server and a solution that could be implemented in my existing program would be the most ideal.
I read on a few sites if the e-mail was marked as read through IMAP commands on the exchange server that the read receipt would not be sent when deleted/opened via the client (owa or outlook). So that is what we did.
Logged into email server via IMAP
. LOGIN [email protected] password
Select the folder to process
. SELECT Inbox
Made the changes to all e-mails in the folder
. STORE 1:* flags \SEEN
This sequence marks all the e-mails in the Inbox as read which then allows my program to delete the e-mails after processing with out a receipt being generated.