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Then it has to be one of the few things to be said in favour of Yahoo Mail
No free lunch, and no free laptop0 -
OK Thanks for all your replies. I won't bother with it then.
It was just a thought - not important, just being nosey really....0 -
Just to add some further info to this thread, but it may be overkill.
There are several commercial services offering this: we use readnotify (search for it - can't past a link)
It does what it says on the tin, you're notified if someone reads or forwards on your mail. It's great when trying to sell to large businesses, you know when (or if) they read your sales proposal and if they forwarded to other people.
David0 -
I use Firefox and Yahoo e-mail - is there any easy way I can see when the e-mails I've sent are actually read please?
Anyone invading / manipulating / gerrymandering my personal mail with a "Read Receipt", is, in no uncertain terms told.
Any recurring offence gets a 100% lifetime ban.
You may want to reconsider doing this to people on a personal level. Don't be offended by my answer, some people hate fools who think they can gerrymander my personal computer - it's personal.Disclaimer : Everything I write on this forum is my opinion. I try to be an even-handed poster and accept that you at times may not agree with these opinions or how I choose to express them, this is not my problem. The Disabled : If years cannot be added to their lives, at least life can be added to their years - Alf Morris - ℜ0 -
Just to add some further info to this thread, but it may be overkill.
There are several commercial services offering this: we use readnotify (search for it - can't past a link)
It does what it says on the tin, you're notified if someone reads or forwards on your mail. It's great when trying to sell to large businesses, you know when (or if) they read your sales proposal and if they forwarded to other people.
David
Trust me, it doesn't work. It only works if the recipient is stupid enough to load remote content when opening the email. Even Outlook doesn't do this by default anymore. I'm inclined to do the free trial to look under the bonnet of this thing.
Edit: Just signed up and sent a test email to myself. I'm waiting already 20 minutes and counting for the email to arrive. In case somebody is interested how it works, you add readnotify.com to the end of the recipients address. That means the email goes through their email server. I'm not sure whether I wanted to do this with my business emails. I'll keep you updated once the email arrives...0 -
OMG, that's so lame Can't believe somebody is paying for this "service". The third email I sent arrived quite quickly, but the other ones are still in the loop somewhere.
I opened the email and of course didn't click on "Display images" in my email client. In my ReadNotify account it still says unsurprisingly "not opened yet"
Here's the HTML code of the test email
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
</HEAD><BODY><DIV></DIV><DIV>test
</DIV>
<div alt="xyz1."><pre> </pre><pre>
<br><Img moz-do-not-send="true" border=0 height=1 width=3 alt="" lowsrc=""
Src=http://www.xyz8.ReadNotify.com/nocache/xyz9/footer0.gif><Img moz-do-not-send="true" Border=0 Height=1 Width=2 Alt=""
Lowsrc=http://www.readnotify.com/ca/rspr47.gif ><BgSound volume=-10000 Alt='' Lowsrc=""
Src=https://tssls.xyz.ReadNotify.com/nocache/xyz/rspr47.wav>
</pre>
</div alt="xyz1."></BODY></HTML>
It also adds the following headers
Disposition-Notification-To: "them" <[EMAIL="myem@iladdress.abc.emsvr.com"]myem@iladdress.abc.emsvr.com[/EMAIL]>
X-Confirm-Reading-To: [EMAIL="myem@iladdress.abc.emsvr.com"]myem@iladdress.abc.emsvr.com[/EMAIL]
Return-Receipt-To: [EMAIL="myem@iladdress.abc.emsvr.com"]myem@iladdress.abc.emsvr.com[/EMAIL]
Notice-Requested-Upon-Delivery-To: [EMAIL="myem@iladdress.abc.emsvr.com"]myem@iladdress.abc.emsvr.com[/EMAIL]
Errors-To: [EMAIL="myem@iladdress.abc.emsvr.com"]myem@iladdress.abc.emsvr.com[/EMAIL]
X-Read-Notification: Courtesy of ReadNotify.com - http://www.xyz1.ReadNotify.com
X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA==
Next I forwarded this email to another address. Thunderbird leaves the HTML in the email, if you send emails in HTML. If you send emails in plain text then it disappears of course. My other email client (Zimbra Desktop) removed all this crap even though it sends emails as HTML.
Interestingly GMail seems to visit the embedded URL's as it has been tracked even though I haven't logged into my account.
Conclusion: Useless. Some people might load remote content and you might get read receipts from some. The read receipts from GMail are useless as they have been sent automatically by Google.0
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