Tag: web bug

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 […]

Email Delivery: How do you know if an email was received?

July 17, 2017

You just sent an important business communication via email and assume all is well, but what if that email was not received? How do you know if an email was received? There could be significant delays or consequences if the message was not delivered. What can you do to put your mind at ease?

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 […]