Is it possible to send an e-mail in such a way that you know if the recipient opened it or not?

In many HTML advertising e-mails it is possible to know if the recipient has ever opened it or not. Sending a regular e-mail from just one person to another via Yahoo! Mail or Gmail is it possible to send a message and know if it was opened rather than just deleted and not read?

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You have to be kind of sneaky The straightforward way to know if a recipient has opened an email is to request a return receipt. Most email programs will allow you to do this. However, the same email programs, e.g. , Outlook, Thunderbird, and most Web mail clients also allow you to ignore these by default.

Spam-weary email users usually have the "ignore request" option turned on - and spammers generally don't bother sending the requests. They still have some utility in enterprise environments, where they can be controlled through group policy, i.e. , the domain administrator can disable your ability to ignore return receipt requests.

For the Web in general, they're next to useless. However, there are still ways of finding out if someone is opening the mail. The most common method is a "Web Bug.

" This is an image, typically a transparent . GIF of 1 pixel by 1 pixel, that is not visible on your screen, but generates a server request in the form of an HTML tag, e.g. You can tailor the server request to an individual, thereby identifying the email as being opened. In the example above, the name "a1b2de7.

Gif" would be generated to uniquely identify the recipient. When the recipient's browser sends the request, the server knows the email has been opened. It's hardly foolproof.

Most email clients also give users the ability to block images in emails for this very reason.In addition, if an email user opts to get mail in plain text, all HTML tags, not just image tags, will be ignored. Spammers who use the Web Bug method succeed only because many people use the option to allow all images in all emails to be displayed. IchtheosaurusRex Sources: Experience .

No. You can *request* confirmation, but it's up to the receipient and has email program configuration whether you get a confirmation at all. The way that email was designed, it was 'store and deliver' and the assumption was that if you received email you would read it.

This was, of course, in the days long before spam became a problem. A later addition was the ability to ask for confirmation when the email was opened and read. Senders can request this confirmation, but every email program out in the world gives the receiver (you or me) the ability to select how to respond.

Some people always have it turned on, others (like me) will NEVER send back a confirmation, and other people say yes or no as they feel like it. I personally think it is an invasion of privacy, for the receiver to know when I may have opened the email. It sets up expectations on his part (why am I not getting an answer?

HE read this 20 minutes ago! ) and it's none of his business if I read his email at 3am or 3pm. -- Having said all that, if you are sophisticated at internet stuff AND you know how to put together an HTML page, there is a way to embed what is called a 'web bug' in an email.

This is nothing more than putting an anchor/reference to an image on YOUR website. It's a 1x1 pixel image, practically invisible to the receiver, but when he opens and reads the email, it has to retrieve the image at YOUR site, and using that, the sender can tell when you opened the email and invoked the lookup. Of course, this only works if the receiver is reading his email using HTML viewing - if they are reading in plain text, the effect is entirely lost.

Web bugs are a nasty and underhanded way or learning this kind of thing, but they are in use in advertisitng emails and have been for years. So it is possible to do, but it takes some work and knowledge.

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1 Yes.........When you send it request a Read Receipt for example in Outlook! In each type e mail provider..check their mailing options tabs! And, tool tabs!Blessings..Annlee .

Yes.........When you send it request a Read Receipt for example in Outlook! In each type e mail provider..check their mailing options tabs! And, tool tabs!Blessings..Annlee.

2 Yes, but. You can request a read receipt, as Annlee said. However, every email program I know - including webmail apps - allows the recipient to decide whether or not to allow a receipt to be sent.So the long answer is, you can have a receipt, but only if the person you wrote to decides to let you have it.

Yes, but. You can request a read receipt, as Annlee said. However, every email program I know - including webmail apps - allows the recipient to decide whether or not to allow a receipt to be sent.So the long answer is, you can have a receipt, but only if the person you wrote to decides to let you have it.

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My deleted e-mail files has opened and answered e-mails but not from my home. How is this possible?

Please help me figure out if Gmail is set correctly in Windows live Mail to send mail.

To what address I can send my payments, I need an address to send my payment by mail.

I use hotmail. When I send a photo attachment. The recipient can see many random pics using prev & next how do I stopit.

I have Outlook 2000. Lately if send a 'TEST' e-mail to myself, or if I copy myself on an e-mail, it is deleted.

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