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Check if user has read an email

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Hi

 

Is it possible to check if a user has read an email in O365 and when through the admin portal. I am being asked by senior management. The sender hadn't set a received or read receipt flag when sending.

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best response confirmed by Alistair Trigg (Brass Contributor)
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Hi Alistair,

Its not really possible at present without workaround and this cannot be done easily - see article

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-PowerShell/Identifying-Read-status-of-emails-in-Excha...

As Vasil mentions, you would need some EWS scripting or something like Search-Mailbox cmdlets with the -LogLevel switch which isn't straightforward. You could possibly assign full mailbox access to the mailbox and go in and see through Web Access if the message has been read - however this raises issues in itself so I wouldn't recommend it.

Hope this answers your question.

Best, Chris

Hi

 

Thanks for the advice. I'll leave it as it is.

 

Alistair

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best response confirmed by Alistair Trigg (Brass Contributor)
Solution
Hi Alistair,

Its not really possible at present without workaround and this cannot be done easily - see article

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-PowerShell/Identifying-Read-status-of-emails-in-Excha...

As Vasil mentions, you would need some EWS scripting or something like Search-Mailbox cmdlets with the -LogLevel switch which isn't straightforward. You could possibly assign full mailbox access to the mailbox and go in and see through Web Access if the message has been read - however this raises issues in itself so I wouldn't recommend it.

Hope this answers your question.

Best, Chris

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