How to track my email is a common question and email tracking is sometimes necessary to ensure that the recipient opened your email. Also if you can schedule an email or schedule Gmail mail will help you to draft mail well in advance and schedule it to send at a later point of time.
RightInbox is a free tool that helps you to track sent emails (also track Gmail ip) and get notified when it is opened. It also allows you to set a future send date for your emails. The tool will automatically send your emails specified time. You can also set future reminders so that the tool sends yourself a future email for an important reminder.
Schedule an Email, Track Your Email Using RightInbox for Gmail
RightInbox is available as browser extension for Mozilla Firefox and as a browser extension for Google Chrome. Once installed the lightweight and fast tool integrates with Gmail. After installation you will have to authorize to tool to access your Gmail account. Worry the tool will never get access to your personal data such as password.)
Once authorized , you will see two new buttons when you compose a new email. One to schedule Gmail email and other to tack your emails. The buttons labelled as “Send Later” and “Track”.
The “Send Later” helps you to schedule an email to be send at a specific time in future. See below. There are many options to choose from including selecting a specified time. Right Inbox will automatically send your emails specified time.
The “Track” option allows you to tack your email. Click the button to tack your email and send email.
The tool will insert a tiny (1×1 px) image in the email. you can see this if you check the source of the email. See below.Using the above technique the RightInbox can tell you when the email is opened and it is possible to know recipients location as well.
In addition to know when the recipient opens your email, you will also notify when a link from your message is clicked. You will get a notification email when the recipient opens the email. The IP address from which the email is opened also available in the alert mail. See below.
RightInbox is a nice free tool to track your email or to schedule an email. It is lightweight and fast. It is available for Firefox 3.6+ and Google Chrome 5.0+
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Binu George , the author of Globinch.com, is a technology blogger and software architect. You can follow him on Twitter, Google+, Facebook.
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