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Comment from martin on 2009-02-07

2009-02-07T15:43:24Z

I think email tracking is well known technique now a days, even individuals have started making scripts that can track emails. I just found a similar website which does not belong to any professional organization http://www.epagecollection.com/ and also free.

I'll just keep saying it: there is no way to reliabley track whether email has been opened or read. None.

- Leo
07-Feb-2009

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Comment from angie on 2009-02-04

2009-02-04T16:20:27Z

hello..i've got pointofmail and guess what..i just got a very snooty email from someone saying they have found out i was spying by having a program that allows me to see when they opened their mail..now i've lost a friend...so actually how reliable is pointofmail...and how could a person find out that their email is tracked?? i know that once when i sent one to myself and then forwarded it, at the end of my name it said pointofmail??? of course i can't get ahold of anyone at pointofmail..

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Comment from barb on 2008-10-08

2008-10-08T14:56:38Z

The Pointofmail.com service has seemed to be very faithful at returning information as to whether an email has been sent, recived, read, when, where, and how many times it was opened. This is very informative and it also tells you if it was forwarded and to whom. Wow....what do you think about this program????

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Comment from Ginger on 2008-09-03

2008-09-04T02:02:30Z

I probably use the same tracking service as the above and I can say that just because it reads "duration" as a few seconds, if you look closely at the times the email was opened, you can sometimes see that it was actually up on the screen longer, therefore read longer. The service may just be tracking the initial "click" to open the email. Mine has worked pretty well, but not well enough.

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Comment from Linda on 2008-05-07

2008-05-08T02:12:22Z

Actually, this is all so refreshing!...so many thanks. I just used one of the internet email tracking services ( shall keep it anonymous)to track an impt. email of mine last weekend. I first rec'd a notice from this tracking service indicating my email was being read and further details to come forth...about three minutes later... I received another email from the tracking service: this time showing my email "read duration" time was: 00:00:01! Terrible! It crushed me! I have been devastated thinking my email wasn't read at all...I thought, maybe, it was immediately deleted when the person saw my name???! This email tracking agency promises to send updates everytime a tracked email is reread...mine was never reread had no updates ever!...never received any more about it then just those initial two emails announcing my email was first being opened with a N/A for the tracking time and second being read with a duration of one second flat! Thanks to this article here that these email tracking services online aren't that reliable! Now I can finally have some hope that the party I sent it to did read it, even though I was informed my email was only read for one second, this really warms my heart in this particular case...thanks much!

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Comment from faizer on 2008-03-12

2008-03-12T18:53:00Z

Sir, i have lost my both hotmail account at once in the night as usual i checked mail and closed and next day morning when i check its say email or password invalid my both hotmail account say error message how do i find out what happened to my both Hotmail accounts?

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Comment from Rick on 2008-03-02

2008-03-03T06:41:55Z

Is there a program that tracks chat rooms visited by entering a user name or email address?

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Comment from sergio gioia on 2008-01-11

2008-01-11T22:44:23Z

if a postemaster tells me that my e-mail did not get tru due to code 5.5.0 then i try again with no message. does this mean my e-mail got tru this time?

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Comment from Kim on 2008-01-02

2008-01-02T21:45:22Z

If you do not open an email that has a Return Receipt attached to it, but you forward it to another email address and then open it, does it still show as being opened?

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Comment from Duex Tremps on 2007-10-12

2007-10-12T19:52:39Z

thank you very much i was wondering about you you didn't send me email yesterday

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Comment from Patty on 2007-10-07

2007-10-08T02:24:37Z

I use the program MSGTAG and have found it very useful. I use the paid version and I highly recommend it. It is a rare thing that I send an email using MSGTAG where I don't get a notification back that it was opened (not necessarily *read* as was pointed out.) Of course these are not life and death instances anyway...I just want to know that someone received my email in their mailbox, whether or not they choose to reply. Fortunately most of the folks that I email, including tech support folks, all seem to use HTML or have "Display images" turned on.

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