Knowing if the recipient of your e-mail has read it.

focksie · ‎03-04-2012

I read that there are several free(?) downloads -- Streak, RightInBox, SpyPig -- that allow you to get a receipt when an e-mail you have sent to someone has been read by that someone. It's also my understanding that the recipient is not aware of your getting this receipt, which is what I want.

I have a gmail account. Have any of you used this function successfully with gmail? Please let me know which ones you have used. Thanks!

voyager1980 · ‎09-14-2013

Wow sounds kinda sneaky? Didn't know we could do this.Wonder if companies do this & know if we open the emails they send.Not sure i like the idea of this ):

ennui1 · ‎06-23-2013

Outlook has a receipt function, but the recipient knows about it.

If someone reads your message from a preview pane, there won't be a receipt because they didn't actually open it.

So, focksie, who are you stalking? ${#emotions_dlg.laugh}$

focksie · ‎03-04-2012

On 6/7/2014 ennui1 said:
Outlook has a receipt function, but the recipient knows about it.

If someone reads your message from a preview pane, there won't be a receipt because they didn't actually open it.

So, focksie, who are you stalking? ${#emotions_dlg.laugh}$

${#emotions_dlg.laugh}$ Not stalking ennui, but I do need to verify that someone receives my instructions. I just read that businesses use this all the time.

Mustang Shar · ‎03-24-2010

For business purposes I agree this is an important tool. What if you give instructions and they weren't done? Oh I didn't get your email........ Yeah, my dog ate my homework.

ennui1 · ‎06-23-2013

On 6/7/2014 focksie said:
On 6/7/2014 ennui1 said:
Outlook has a receipt function, but the recipient knows about it.

If someone reads your message from a preview pane, there won't be a receipt because they didn't actually open it.

So, focksie, who are you stalking? ${#emotions_dlg.laugh}$

${#emotions_dlg.laugh}$ Not stalking ennui, but I do need to verify that someone receives my instructions. I just read that businesses use this all the time.

Yes, businesses use it, but it's a lot easier just to pick up the phone and ask.

focksie · ‎03-04-2012

On 6/7/2014 ennui1 said:
On 6/7/2014 focksie said:
On 6/7/2014 ennui1 said:
Outlook has a receipt function, but the recipient knows about it.

If someone reads your message from a preview pane, there won't be a receipt because they didn't actually open it.

So, focksie, who are you stalking? ${#emotions_dlg.laugh}$

${#emotions_dlg.laugh}$ Not stalking ennui, but I do need to verify that someone receives my instructions. I just read that businesses use this all the time.

Yes, businesses use it, but it's a lot easier just to pick up the phone and ask.

This is a person who does not answer her phone and does not return phone calls.

glb613 · ‎03-09-2010

Sounds like she doesn't want anything to do with you.

focksie · ‎03-04-2012

On 6/7/2014 glb613 said:
Sounds like she doesn't want anything to do with you.

Uh, no. She's just too busy and sometimes irresponsible. But that's not what my OP is about. I really just want to know if anyone has successfully used one of these downloads and which one.

hckynut · ‎03-10-2010

On 6/7/2014 focksie said:
I read that there are several free(?) downloads -- Streak, RightInBox, SpyPig -- that allow you to get a receipt when an e-mail you have sent to someone has been read by that someone. It's also my understanding that the recipient is not aware of your getting this receipt, which is what I want.

I have a gmail account. Have any of you used this function successfully with gmail? Please let me know which ones you have used. Thanks!

If someone(or who knows what someone) has read an e-mail? Don't think so! Received it and at the right address? Yes. Opened it? Yes. Now how anyone can determine what I do and do not read, even a live person standing over me looking? Simple physiological fact, they can't.

Imagine everyone that opens a thread here. Do you think every one of them that is opened is read? If so, how can anyone statistically quantify and qualify that knowledge? Simple! They can't.

Now as far as if the person I sent the e-mail receiving it and reading it. I will stick with common sense I what I do know about the abilities and inabilities of this technological world in which we now live. These new gadgets and programs etc. can do a lot of things but I don't know of any yet that can record and transfer the brain waves of an individual that opens any type of written message that can definitively say "yes they read it".

hckynut(john)