Can I tell if email I sent has been read by the recipient?

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Seems Leo doesn't know too much. It's simple. Just go to Msgtag.com & download their free software. It works if you fall in the categories that they say it will work in. Very nifty program - I use it & it works great.

There's another way to tell if your email has been read. Through spypig you can tell if your email has been read. the process has been detailed at techbanyan here
http://www.techbanyan.com/archives/138

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As I keep saying again and again these techniques all rely
on images being viewed by your recipient. If the recipient
does not view images then there is *no way* to determine
whether they've opened your email. Period.

I'm closing comments on this article because too many people
keep posting false and misleading information.

Leo

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I hope I can find a way to. For me I email my friend then afterwards call him to ask if he receives my email.

I badly need a format that allows me to know when people have read my e-mail if they have preview pane on then I do not know if they have read it if they do not respond, I am not paying for the privilege, www.spypig.com is good but does not work in webpage.

Please help

Sheila

As the article you just commented on states pretty clearly, there's no way to reliably do what you want.

24-Oct-2009

google "spypig"

you'l find the answer.

Like all such third party tools and services that claim to do this, they are not reliable. They all rely on the recipient viewing images, which of course is turned off by default in most cases, and can be turned off if not. Again, there is no 100% solution to find out for certain if your email has been opened. Period.

02-Nov-2009

All you have to do is ask the person if they read it or not. Simple.

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