You do not need a read receipt on most of your email. Here is when tracking adds nothing but worry, and when it actually earns its place.
The test: would the answer change what you do Before you track a message, ask one question.
The test: would the answer change what you do Before you track a message, ask one question.

What the detector actually reports A read receipt reports one event: a small image in your message was fetched, once, from somewhere, at a c...

One message, one pixel, many copies A read receipt of this kind is a small invisible image with an address unique to the message.

What the setting actually does The mail app in question added, a few years ago, a privacy protection that is on by default and that most peo...

What the silence before it probably was Start with the week of nothing, because a late open reframes it.

On one of the places I publish, a post I put up rendered broken to anyone not logged in.

A read receipt says "opened", and it is very tempting to read that word as "they read it".

I was looking at a place to put a page. It asked for no account, it took markdown, and it gave me a working link in a few seconds. I was abo...

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