can you check if your mail has been opened

[loboman]

Is there a way to get notification that your mail to someone has been opened
by them, without using the request that they notify you?

 

[DL]

You can ask for a read recipt, however its optional whether the receiver
replies - I rarely do

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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Is there a way to get notification that your mail to someone has been
opened by them, without using the request that they notify you?

Ask the recipient.

 

[Tom Bradley]

You can also use the paid service available from www.didtheyreadit.com. It
works "most" of the time. I have it working with Outlook 2007...

 

[Vanguard]

You can also use the paid service available from
www.didtheyreadit.com. It
works "most" of the time. I have it working with Outlook 2007...

Works similarly to MsgTag - by using a web beacon (aka web bug); see
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Marketing/web_bug.html. This works if and
only if you compose your e-mail in HTML format (or send your plain text
message through a service that converts it to HTML format). Using web
beacons is an old trick by spammers to see which accounts are valid and
active (to promote those addresses in their spam lists). If you read
your mails in plain-text mode, or you block linked content, their
"service" is rendered useless and the sender won't know that you have
read their e-mail unless YOU choose to notify them.

These "notification services" use an old spam trick in an attempt to
wrest control away from the recipient regarding their e-mail management.
I believe MsgTag put a signature in the HTML-formatted e-mail alerting
of its use (but then, of course, it was too late if the recipient had
reduced security in their e-mail program). It is a covert technique to
discover if the recipient has opened the e-mail (but doesn't really mean
that the recipient has *read* it) because it doesn't ASK the recipient
as to how much privacy they wish to relinquish to someone else.

Anyone that attempts to use web bugs, even if formerly a friend, will
get added to my blacklist (provided they aren't already on a DNSBL).
The sender doesn't get to control how *I* manage my e-mails.