Ammedment to code:

Knowing the email address of the sender would be useful to know before
authorizing a read receipt so I changed:

Display = "Do you wish to allow a read receipt?" ' Define message.

to:

Display = "Do you wish to allow a read receipt from " &
Item.SenderEmailAddress & "?"

Will this display the email address of the sender in the pop up box?

Thanks!
"prideoflions" wrote:

Hello,

I'm running Outlook 2003 and would like the ability to always allow read
receipts from the users in my address book, but would like to choose whether
to allow a read receipt or not from anyone else. I'm attempting to do this by
setting the outlook settings to "always allow", but run the following a rule
on all incoming emails not in my contact list:

Sub PromptReadReceipt(MyMail As MailItem)
Dim strID, Display, Title As String
Dim olNS As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim Msg As Outlook.MailItem
Dim Style, Response

Display = "Do you wish to allow a read receipt?" ' Define message.
Style = vbYesNo ' Define buttons.
Title = "Read Receipt Prompt" ' Define title.

strID = MyMail.EntryID
Set olNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set Msg = olNS.GetItemFromID(strID)
If Item.ReadReceiptRequested = True Then
Response = Msgbox(Display, Style, Title)
If Response = vbNo Then
Item.ReadReceiptRequested = False
Item.OriginatorDeliveryReportRequested = False
Item.Update
End If
Else
End If
Else
End If

Set Msg = Nothing
Set olNS = Nothing
End Sub

I'm not very familiar with outlook and it's VBA code requirements, so I
Frankensteined this from code I found on multiple web pages and help menus. I
was hoping someone more experienced than I could have a look for errors/loops
before I try this out in Outlook.

Thanks!