Re: Confirmation when a message has been opened

On 18 Jun 2019 Richard Mellish  wrote:

> Two organisations that I belong to and that send out newsletters by email
> have recently reported statistics of how many members open these messages.
> This presumably depends on either the member's mail client or the webmail
> system (whichever the member uses) sending some sort of acknowledgment
> back to the sender when a message is opened.

> Am I right in assuming that MPro does not do this? Is that unusual or are
> the statistics likely to be missing members who use other mail clients?

There are receipts which can be enabled or disabled but I don't think MPro 
supports them. At least I haven't found where you can change the status. 
In any case, because receipts can be turned off they aren't reliable.

The usual way sites try to find out whether you read the message or not is 
in the html. The text/html part often contains an image tag or equivalent 
css in which the image source includes an argument that identifies you.

If you only read the text/plain part or the stripped down text/html part 
and don't open the html attachment in a browser then the sender has no 
idea whether you read the message or not.

A while back I got a message from a well-known political party wondering 
why I hadn't been reading their messages. I found this in a previous 
message:

background-image:
url('https://vs86a2fx.emltrk.com/vs86a2fx?p&d=3Dricp@...
eengage_q217nm');}}

Bit of a give-away!


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Richard Porter                      http://www.minijem.plus.com/
t: @westernexplorer                 mailto:ricp@...
I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.

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