E-mail Question?

[fastman]

Other then on a LAN, can you tell if wheather or not the recipiant of your E-mail has opened it or not?

 

[FoolishMcNasty]

Originally posted by: fastman
Other then on a LAN, can you tell if wheather or not the recipiant of your E-mail has opened it or not?

what mail client are you using? with outlook, the sender can require a receipt upon opening of an email...

 

[bozo1]

Nope.

You can send your email with a return receipt requested but the recipient can always choose not to send one.

 

[amdskip]

Originally posted by: bozo1
Nope.

You can send your email with a return receipt requested but the recipient can always choose not to send one.

True so it's not really possible.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Use that evil HTML email (I hate that, and if I could figure out how to make outlook only display text instead of HTML I would be all over it) and embed a 1x1 pixel image resting on a server of yours. When that image gets a hit, the person has opened the mail.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Heh, Outlook Express can display text only now. 🙂

How exactly can you figure out when somebody has read an email just from being on a LAN with them?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
Heh, Outlook Express can display text only now. 🙂

I need an answer for Outlook. 😛

How exactly can you figure out when somebody has read an email just from being on a LAN with them?

There is a request reciept or something option in Outlook. Can't tell you where it is though.

 

[skyking]

Attach a good joke..........listen for the laugh, and watch for others telling the joke.....😛

 

[TJN23]

i'm guessing you can tell an email has been opened by someone on your LAN through a network monitoring program, maybe listening on port 110 (POP) - is this accurate??

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Use that evil HTML email (I hate that, and if I could figure out how to make outlook only display text instead of HTML I would be all over it) and embed a 1x1 pixel image resting on a server of yours. When that image gets a hit, the person has opened the mail.

can u explain this a little more plz?

 

[skyking]

listening to port 110 tells you about traffic. trying to see if someone has actually opened up mail, now you are going inside someone else's computer and seeing if the mail was viewed. Noc's suggestion is brilliant: A 1 pixel by 1 pixel image in an html message, is really a link back to a server of yours. when that link is activated, you can have the server keep track of the hit on it. you will know when someone viewed the mail message. The reader will see nothing in the body of the mail.
It is kinda cumbersome, but it works. Very high on geekiness content😛

 

[Transition]

Originally posted by: skyking
listening to port 110 tells you about traffic. trying to see if someone has actually opened up mail, now you are going inside someone else's computer and seeing if the mail was viewed. Noc's suggestion is brilliant: A 1 pixel by 1 pixel image in an html message, is really a link back to a server of yours. when that link is activated, you can have the server keep track of the hit on it. you will know when someone viewed the mail message. The reader will see nothing in the body of the mail.
It is kinda cumbersome, but it works. Very high on geekiness content😛

Indeed a simple but very effective idea. I can feel the geek aura filling this thread! 😉

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: TJN23
i'm guessing you can tell an email has been opened by someone on your LAN through a network monitoring program, maybe listening on port 110 (POP) - is this accurate??

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Use that evil HTML email (I hate that, and if I could figure out how to make outlook only display text instead of HTML I would be all over it) and embed a 1x1 pixel image resting on a server of yours. When that image gets a hit, the person has opened the mail.

can u explain this a little more plz?

Probably not, but I can try. 😛

When you access an HTML document, your browser/email client/whatever can request documents from a server. That server can log each request. By checking your logs for access to a picture you have only used in an email to a particular person, you should be able to judge when they have accessed the picture file. If you keep it small, like 1x1 white pixel on a white background, they should never notice.

 

[Santa]

Why don't you just ask them to tell you when they read it? 🙂