![]() Apple’s system doesn’t reveal anything about when you read a message as a result-only that a message was received. This feature uses a proxy method: Apple downloads all remote images for messages received on your Mac using a proxy method that also separates your IP address from the message. You can also get MailTrackerBlocker, a free extension for macOS Mail (already updated through macOS 13 Ventura) that blocks the best-known trackers.Īpple built a more comprehensive solution into Mail starting in iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS 12 Monterey with Mail Privacy Protection. Along with these statistics and a chronological view of different action performed by recipients, you can also set reminders to follow up with an email and set. Some apps specifically look for and block those pixels, such as Postbox. ![]() If you don’t load images in your email app, the tracking pixels can’t perform their magic. Each time the message is forwarded or read, those instances can be logged as well with some marketing and mailing list software.Īs part of the ongoing cat-and-mouse game between privacy-forward companies like Apple and marketing firms and app makers that fail to garner advance permission for disclosing private information and personal decisions, these invisible tracking pixels are now largely blocked. Third-party plug-ins and some marketing-oriented email hosts and apps can embed a consent-free tracking “bug”: a transparent 1-by-1–pixel image that, when rendered as part of an HTML message when images are loaded effectively reveals that the email message was read, at what time that occurred, and at what IP address, a loose way of identifying someone’s whereabouts on the internet. You need to click on the “Options” arrow, under the subject line above your main text area, and then select to receive a receipt from there.Outlook lets you request a read receipt but few modern email clients will honor that request at all or by default. RoundCube has far the prettiest interface of these 3, and as such the receipt options are hidden at first. In SquirrelMail, you can tick what kind or receipt you want – when it’s read, or when it’s delivered, or both. With Horde, you simply need to tick the “Request a Read Receipt” box above the main text area for your email. ![]() Below are screenshots of how you request a read receipt in each of these interfaces – in each case it’s simply a case of ticking a box when you send an email. If your site is hosted on a CPanel server and you access your mail via webmail then you probably have your favourite email client out of Horde, SquirrelMail and RoundCube. Generally the recipient gets a message saying something like “This sender has requested a read receipt, is this OK?” So they’re not to be relied on, and really should only be used in the case of sending important information (so that the recipient doesn’t feel like they’re being stalked if you ask for one every time!). Well, often it depends on the recipient’s email system and whether that allows read receipt requests through / whether it caters for them, and often whether the person who reads the email actually wants to send you a receipt. A client asked me today how they could receive a read receipt for the emails they send – in other words, a message back into their email that the email they’d sent had been read. ![]()
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