Is there a way to know if someone has received an e-mail I sent?

[Bo]

Originally Posted by kitty3

Is there a program or something I can download, that would notify me when a recipient has opened or read an e-mail I sent to them? Maybe with the day they read it?

If you're willing to pay for that capability, here are a couple of services that can provide it.

ReturnReceipt.com - the ultimate tool for your email (http://www.returnreceipt.com/returnreceipt/login.asp - broken link)

http://www.readnotify.com/

[Radek]

I send read-receipts on important e-mails to clients, and they do the same to us at work.

On a personal level, never though.

[elizas]

We can send emails with ColdFusion using cfmail tag, but we do not have a direct way to track whether an email has been read/opened by the recipient or not. We can do this using some indirect way mentioned below.

While developing an email functionality with cfmail, we can include one 1X1 px image in the mail body using <img src="". Instead of providing the path of the image for src directly, we can provide the path of one CFM template present on the server. The URL should contain one random number as URL parameter created using CreateUUID() function to uniquely identify each server request when the email is opened. In the CFM template we can render the 1X1 px image using cfcontent and also we can run an update query to set the email status flag to "Read".

Sample Code:

<cfmail from="from@mindfiresolutions.com" to="to@mindfiresolutions.com" subject="test subject" server="mailServerIP" type="text/html">
<img src="http://www.testsite.com/1x1.cfm?id=recipientID&randID=#CreateUUID()#">
Email Text
</cfmail>

Eliza

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[mensaguy]

Since the original question was asked over a year and a half ago, I'm betting the OP isn't reading and won't be writing any CF code.

[Tek_Freek]

Newbie-one-post and another revived-from-the-dead thread. It's a conspiracy I tell ya! Either that or a viral attack!

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by swagger

Also responsible for messages going unread is anti-spam technology that's either configured to discard messages it thinks are spam (a BAD thing)..

This happens quite a bit, especially with the larger email providers, this would be a concern if your sending through your own server or small operation. Common problem is bad reverse DNS, big email providers like AOL, Hotmail etc will drop email likes this into a black hole. The intended recipient never knew it existed and the sender never gets a bounce message.