Tag: read receipt

How to Tell If Someone Read Your Email: Read Receipts and Web Bugs

January 30, 2024

We’ve all been in this scenario: you send an important email to your boss or a client, and then you wait, stressed out and anxious to know if they received it and their response. Typically, you can request a read receipt when sending the message to confirm the email was received. Another method, HTML web […]

Protecting Yourself from Email Web Beacons

July 7, 2020

Web Beacons (a.k.a Tracking Pixels) are images in HTML-formatted email messages that, when viewed, tell the sender of the message that you read it.  This mechanism of obtaining essentially covert confirmation that (a) your email address is valid, (b) the email got past your filters, and (c) you actually read the message, is pervasively used […]

How do you know if someone has read your email message?

July 26, 2013

Has your recipient read the email message that you sent to them? Has anyone else read the email messages you sent or saved in your online email folders? We are often asked how customers can verify if an email that has been sent has actually been read or if they can detect if messages have […]

Reliable Read Receipts with SecureLine Escrow

April 14, 2009

Read receipt requests are generally an extremely unreliable way to find out if your recipient has read an email messages that you have sent to him/her. Why? Because Some email programs do not support read receipts, and thus messages viewed with these would never send you a notice that the message was read. Programs that […]