One of the nice features of Outlook is that it allows a sender to request a receipt from the receiver confirming delivery of email. Most often this can include not only delivery of email but also that the email has been opened suggesting but not guaranteeing it was also read. At the very least the sender can be sure that the email was not lost due to some arcane filter or virus control.

This can prove to be a useful feature in the communication process and also remove any doubts of communicated messages should the communications end up in a courtroom setting.

As always with software applications, in this case Outlook, you can still encounter problems. One of the problems reported with receipt delivery is that some users have experienced problems when sending their read receipt notifications. Specifically, responders have reported time-out errors such as a 0x8004210B operation time-out error message in Outlook 2000 or 2003.

During the process of opening an email message sent with a delivery receipt request users can choose to send a receipt. It is at this time that Outlook can pause for several seconds. Then the user will receive an error message such as: Continue reading Troubleshooting Error Code 0x8004210b