Read Receipt Remover for MS Exchange 2000/2003 application

Updated: 13-September-2005

Purpose.

Read Receipt Remover for MS Exchange 2000/2003 application (RRR) can remove the read receipt request from each inbound e=mail message delivered to default Inbox folder of user's personal mailbox. So the Read Notification will never be sent back to the message originator. 

The application is an Exchange store synchronous event sink. 



Benefits.

- This application can increase the "hacker-resistance" of your e-mail system

- Read request removing is processed instantly, before any rules are applied

- You can set up RRR on per-mailbox basis or as "store-wide" application, i.e. it will work on each user's Inbox in the certain Exchange mailbox store. 




Installation.

On your Exchange Server computer:

1. Create a new mail-enabled user account and make sure it's mailbox alias is RRRTEST

2. Select (or create) user account that is a member of the local Administrators, Domain Admins, Domain Users and Exchange Domain Servers security groups.
That account must have full permissions on the mailbox store. Open ESM (Exchange System Manager) and drill down to the mailbox store in question. Now open the properties and select the Security tab. Add your account and allow full control.
See also this MS article: "Exchange 2000 Permissions Required to Configure an Event Sink" (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812861)

3. Log on as that user.

4. Create C:\Program Files\RRR\ directory.

5. Download RRR-demo.zip archive file to C:\Program Files\RRR\ directory and extract all files.

6. Run C:\Program Files\RRR\RRRsetup.exe

7. Check Install COM+ object checkbox. Place the #2 account name (using <domain>\<account> syntax) and password in the appropriate fields. Click CHANGE button.

8. Select in the the first (upper) list the RRRTEST mailbox and check Register in the following Mailboxes checkbox. Click CHANGE button. (THIS DEMO VERSION SHOWS ONLY *TEST* MAILBOXES - see "About this demo version" below.) RRRTEST mailbox will be placed in the second (lower) listbox.

9. Click Exit button.



Testing.

1. Using Outlook, create new message, click View -> Options and check "Request a read receipt for this message".

2. Send this message to RRRTEST.

3. Read the message as RRRTEST.

4. Make sure a read receipt has not been sent to originator.

RRR has been tested with Exchange 2000 SP1/SP2/SP3 on MS Windows 2000 Advanced server and with Exchange 2003 on MS Windows 2003. 



Uninstallation.

1. Start C:\Program Files\RRR\RRRsetup.exe

2. Select all strings in the second mailbox list and mark Unregister from the following mailboxes checkbox.

3. Mark Uninstall COM+ object checkbox.

4. Press CHANGE button. After uninstallation is complete, press Exit button.




About this demo version.

RRR demo version works only for mailboxes whose names include "TEST".
Examples:
 RRR1TEST
 TEST2RRR
Other mailboxes are unavailable. 
Also you can not register this demo version for all maiboxes at once (store-wide). Full product version has no limitations.



I appreciate any comments and criticism.

Thank you,

Victor Ivanidze

victori@mail.fact400.ru
www.ivasoft.biz

