In this article I will introduce you to QTrack online service which lets you find you find if email was read or not.
Pre-requisites
To use QTrack you must be using a EMail client which supports sending of email in HTML format. And also the recipient must use HTML supported email client to view the email.
All modern email clients: Outlook, Eudora, Yahoo Email, Gmail, Hotmail, AOL Email and many others support HTML format for sending and receiving emails. Therefore QTrack works on all this email clients.
How to use?
You need to attach an invisible tracking image to the email you are sending. When recipient opens the email the image is loaded from QTrack servers and you will received a notification.
- Visit QTrack. Enter an email address to which you want to get notification stating recipient has read the email. Enter a unique subject to identify multiple tracks uniquely.
- Now highlight the tracking image by draging the mouse pointer across the image until it is highlighted. Do not right click and click copy. After highlighted press Control+C to copy it. Press Control+V to paste it into your email message.
You might get an email notification as soon as you send your out. Just ignore this notification.