• Does the mail indicate that the message has been read? How do you know if an email you sent has been read? How to find out if a Yandex.Mail user has read a letter

    Perhaps everyone - at least once in their life - wanted to know whether the letter had been read. Typical situations:

    • We responded to an interesting vacancy. We sent a resume, portfolio and cover letter, and received silence in response. Complete uncertainty.
    • Participate in a creative competition. The deadlines are running out and the winner will be determined soon. At the same time, it is generally unclear whether they looked at your work or not.
    • Sent price list/media kit by e-mail. Want to call your potential client soon after they review the proposal. You don't know when this will happen.

    A read receipt is not an option: the user can refuse to send a confirmation, read the letter and not respond.

    Email marketing services and postmasters, of course, will provide the necessary statistics, but they are relevant only with mass mailing list from your own domain. The average user does not need all this.

    Thus, there are two ways to find out whether a letter has been read in Yandex / Mail.Ru / Gmail mail.

    1. Use ready-made solutions: special services and extensions

    There are a number of services and browser extensions that allow you to track whether the recipient has opened your letter. This is the easiest way, but unfortunately:

    • Many free products are outdated/not working correctly.
    • You have to pay for modern and convenient solutions, otherwise there will be restrictions and advertising.

    I studied three different email tracking tools. Among them:

    • GetNotify, which has not been updated since 2012.

    How it works: to find out if a letter has been read, you need to send it to an address like [email protected]. The service then apparently adds hidden code to the content and forwards the email directly to the recipient - [email protected]. When the recipient opens it, the sender receives a notification by email.

    Everything would be fine, but there is a problem with the encoding, and the postal service is complaining.

    The email from GetNotify is not trustworthy.

    • Bananatag– beautiful, but 0% effective.

    According to description Bananatag– excellent solution: 5 emails per day for free; detailed statistics; integration with Gmail, Outlook and mobile email clients.

    In fact, not a single letter that was read was displayed in the dashboard. Although I tried to write both on Yandex and Mail. The service couldn’t even tell whether a letter sent to oneself on Gmail had been read :)

    I sent and read 5 letters – bananatag has zero emotions.

    • MailTrack for Gmail, with which everything is OK, except for self-promotion.

    You send a text message, email or messenger message, and then, when you don’t receive a response, you begin to wonder if it got through? In some cases this can actually be verified, depending on the way the message was sent.

    You will need

    • -mobile phone;
    • -Internet.

    Instructions

  • If you send a message from your phone, then you can know for sure that it was delivered. To do this, you need to set up a delivery report. The report comes in the form of a message indicating whether your message was received or whether it is on hold. The latter means that the recipient's phone is turned off or is out of range. The message is stored by the operator for three days; if the phone is not turned on during this time, it will be lost. So, let’s set up the report: go to “Messages”, select “Message Settings”. In some models, SMS settings are a separate item - this is what is needed. In this menu, go to “Send Settings” (it may be called differently, for example, “Send Profile”), in it, instead of the default settings, select “Send Report”. If we are talking about a messenger, then some of them, for example, Skype, display a message stating that the delivery was not carried out. This happens if the recipient is offline. ICQ often does not display any messages. In this case, you need to understand that sending can be done through the server, and, most likely, as soon as the user logs into the messenger, the message will be received. But since instant messengers work through a less reliable delivery channel than, for example, mail, the message can easily be lost. So just ask the recipient.
  • If we are talking about a messenger, then some of them, for example, Skype, display a message stating that the delivery was not carried out. This happens if the recipient is offline. ICQ often does not display any messages. In this case, you need to understand that sending can be done through the server, and, most likely, as soon as the user logs into the messenger, the message will be received. But since instant messengers work through a less reliable delivery channel than, for example, mail, the message can easily be lost. So just ask the recipient.
  • When sending email, it's all up to the client. Most often, delivery notification works as follows: delivery is carried out by default, but if the letter has not found its addressee, then the sender receives a notification. But in addition to this, you can set up a read receipt. The setup process depends on the mail server you are using. For example, in mail.ru, check the box next to “Read notifications”.

    • How many times have you sent an important email and then agonized over waiting for a response?
    Or maybe the recipient left... or his computer broke down... or what if the letter got lost somewhere and never arrived? - many of us asked such questions, driving away the sad thoughts that an “important” letter for you simply flew into the trash without receiving a reply message. Nothing, now, thanks to the SpyPig service, you will know for sure whether your letter has been read or not.

    The service provides absolutely free services for notifying users that the recipient has read their email messages. The service is not only free, but also does not require registration, which is doubly pleasant.

    Using SpyPig takes a few simple steps. When you have written an important letter, the reading of which you want to track, then before sending it, visit the service website. Here you will see a form on the right side of the page that you need to fill out.

    Enter your email in the top field, and the title (subject) of the letter you are sending in the next field. This is done so that when you receive a read receipt from SpyPig, you immediately understand what kind of letter we are talking about.

    Next, you need to select an image that will be inserted into the email you send. We are given the choice of several cute pigs, a service banner, or a blank white square if you do not want the signal image to be noticeable. However, there is an option to upload any of your images, so you can use your company logo or your avatar, for example, for tracking.

    Then click on the big button Create My SpyPig, and just below the picture you selected appears with a one-minute countdown timer. During this minute you need to copy the drawing into your letter. Please note that Gmail users, due to the nature of this service, must first select a picture on the page, and only then copy and paste it using the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.

    Now you can send a letter and calmly wait for a notification that it has been read. As soon as the recipient opens the email, you will receive a message similar to this:

    This letter contains not only confirmation that the letter was opened, but also some additional information, such as the time it was read, the recipient’s IP address, and even his approximate geographic location.

    Despite the cartoon pigs and playful design, the service performs a very important and popular task. With its help, you will finally bring to light all these deceivers who shamelessly tell you that they did not receive your letter and never saw your letter at all.

    When creating a newsletter for my company, I was concerned about whether my subscribers read the emails. You can’t put a counter on an email, you can’t execute any scripts, so you need to look for a way out. The simplest way is to ask the user to follow a link - for obvious reasons this may not work. The “unsubscribe” link will work if the user is not interested, i.e. we get information that is not exactly what we need. The exit suggested itself.

    If the letter uses any elements from your site, then you just need to count the number of downloads. Email clients are very primitive and you can only count on downloading images. Therefore, we make a script that produces a simple white picture:

    We check that the image is indeed being generated. However, now you need to determine whether the visitor is unique. A simple way is to tag your email like this:

    where is the subscriber’s unique identifier (MD5 hash of the email). We embed it in the html page, check it in the browser - it is displayed. Now let's write the statistics to the database:


    Now, every time a picture is downloaded in the database, the number of downloads for a given identifier increases. We generate a letter and send it for verification. And then it turns out that Gmail simply ignores such images. We need some way to interpret standard links to images as calls to a script. Of course, you can make a bunch of scripts, but this is not rational.

    mod_rewrite for apache comes to the rescue. To recognize a link to a picture and replace it with a link to a script, you need to create a file like this in the script directory:

    RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ([[:alnum:]]+).png$ img.php?i=$1 [L]
    The first instruction is to enable mod_rewrite, the second is to use a regular expression to extract the name of the png file from the link, without the extension. Name may

    • consist of numbers and letters: [:alnum:]
    • have any number of them: [[:alnum:]]+
    • remember the name: ([[:alnum:]]+)
    • the end extension will be.png: ([[:alnum:]]+).png
    After the space, we indicate what we should receive in return for what was found: img.php?i=$1 [L], where $1 is what we previously remembered in brackets, and [L] is an instruction instructing us to stop processing the URL at this operation. Let's combine everything into one script:

    Now you can insert images into letters in the usual way:

    mod_rewrite will change the link itself and transfer control to our script. At least Gmail, Outlook, and even OpenOffice Writer correctly recognized and displayed the image, and the read counter incremented properly.

    The described method can be used almost everywhere where you need to count the number of openings of html structures, because images are supported almost everywhere.

    When the message sent is of great importance, the question may arise: how to know if the email has been read. After all, understanding who opened the message and when saves you from unnecessary worries. There are several ways how this can be done.

    How do I know if a Mail email has been read?

    If you are a client of the Mail.Ru mail service and are interested in how to find out whether an email has been read, it will be easier to figure out than for users of other services.

    "Mail" has a built-in option - "Read Receipt". If activated, the sender will receive a message as soon as the letter is opened.

    It works like this:

    1. Look for the sign to the left of the address input field. It looks like three horizontal stripes. After clicking, a context menu will appear, where you select “Notify when read.”
    2. In the new Mail.Ru design, everything is even simpler: click on the envelope on the right in the subject line. When you hover your cursor, the phrase “with notification” will appear.
    3. When the recipient opens such a letter, he will be prompted to confirm reading. Unfortunately, a person can refuse. Then you won’t be able to find out if the message was received.

    It is worth noting that some users complain that the function does not work correctly when sending to other email services.

    How can I find out if a Yandex.Mail user has read a letter?

    Answer to the question "How can I find out if an email has been read in Yandex?" will not differ much from the instructions for Mail.

    The only difference is the location of the button to turn on the notification. Yandex.Mail users need to look for it at the very bottom of the message. Read confirmations are sent automatically. Another useful difference from colleagues from Mail.ru is that notifications from the Yandex mail service also work correctly when sending letters to other services.

    How can I tell if the recipient has read an email sent in Gmail?

    But before you can find out whether a Google email has been read, you need to use a different approach. The service does not offer built-in functions to users. It's good that there are extensions for Google Chrome that replace them! Such programs work even better. In addition to the fact of reading, they can also:

    • notify whether the recipient opened attachments from the letter and clicked on links;
    • remind if no response has been received after the specified period;
    • help make mass sending of personal letters to people.

    At the moment there are several decent options. But the extension called Yesware is especially popular. It works on the same principle as many others. A small picture is inserted into the letter. But it is not used for beauty, but as a Tracking Pixel. When a person opens a received email, the image is downloaded from the company's own servers. At the same time, of course, leaving “digital traces.”

    Yesware receives a signal when the image is opened, and you receive a read notification. Alerts can also be reviewed later in the menu. A useful bonus: using the service you can find out the city and device of the person who read the letter.

    How to hide the fact that you read someone else's letter?

    Sometimes you find yourself in the shoes of a person who wants to hide the fact that the letter has been read.

    If this sounds like you, use a few tricks:

    • Disable the display of images in the body of the letter. It’s better not to open letters from unknown senders at all.
    • If the email has a link attached, hover your cursor over it. But don't rush to click! Look at the bottom left corner of your browser. The address that will be followed when clicked will be displayed there. If it has nothing to do with what is specified in the link, it is not worth the risk.

    How to find out if a letter has been read using psychology?

    There is no time or desire to understand the technical intricacies, but the question remains: how to find out if an email has been read? Then you can use simple psychological tricks:

    • Address the recipient by name and indicate that the text was written personally for him. Most are inclined to close automatically generated texts immediately.
    • Be concise, otherwise reading the letter will most likely be postponed until later. Have you never done this yourself?
    • Format the text so that it is pleasant to read. Remove words and constructions that do not make sense. Break the story down into parts. You can use lists, underlining, or bolding. The main thing is not to overdo it.
    • Ask the recipient a specific question. If it can be answered quickly in a couple of sentences, many people will do it right away. But a long opus will require time to prepare.
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