Is there any way to know if an email sent with GMail was read or received?

A read receipt won't necessarily tell you if someone read the email, because the person could refuse to send the read receipt. The typical way to track emails are to include an invisible image in the email (like a 1x1 pixel GIF) and then track the stats on that image to see how many times it was loaded. You can use a service like Aweber to do this for you, or you can do it yourself if you have access to web analytics on your own site.

Gmail doesn't give read receipts (which includes the received message function). Found the answer on their help forum, where it is suggested that you use another mail client, like outlook or thunderbird, to achieve that result.

This can be answered in a non Macintosh specific way. Tracking whether or not a email has been read can be done regardless of your computing platform. Method one is what is called a "read receipt".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_tracking Some email applications will allow you to enable a read receipt. This adds a small line to the invisible headers of an email message. This tells the recipients email application, whether it be Mac, PC, web based, or desktop based, to send a reply back to the sender when the email is read.It requires both ends, the sender, and recipient to support read receipts, and both parties to allow them.

That condition is almost never met. The second way, which is perhaps the simplest, and most low tech, is through a little social engineering. Just structure your email in a way that you include a link in the email.

Make sure you use a link that has some view count ability. For example, you could upload an image to any number of the free image hosting providers, which track views of the image.As long as you can coax the reader of your email into clicking that link, it will register a view count on the site and you know they read the email. If you have your own website, you could install google analytics on a special page, link to that page in your email, then watch your google analytics stats for when they loaded your special page.

Google analytics tends to be several hours behind on updates though. The final way, is through a hidden image in the email. The very nature of reading the email, will in most cases, load the image, and you can, in the same way as method #2 above, track that images loading.

The problem with this, is many people do not allow this, which is called "remote image loading". Some email clients will notice it, and specifically disable it. Others, like myself, use plain text only in their emails, which will render all images impossible to load.

My preferred method is #2 from above, you have the highest chance of success since technology can not block it. All you have to do is come up with a good ruse to get your recipient to click the link. Most of the time they will.

You could use a third party software to get receipt's of delivery. I have tried one readnotify.com it has free trial. You can use it with any email client.It tracks everything about your sent email, like how many times it was read, it will track the IP everytime your email is opened.

It will also record the time taken by the user to read the email. In simple its very useful to track your emails.

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