Re: [Dovecot] Can we know when a user read our email?

Ed W wrote:

Just to register interest, but at some point I will need to consider writing a plugin or similar to achieve exactly this.

Situation is that several of our competitors offer such a feature, ie known pool of users on dialup or intermittently connected systems, provide an alert back to the sender when your email has been "accessed/downloaded" by the remote user.

My dentist used a service that claimed to provide a read-notification.

It was just an embedded web-bug in the email that I could choose to display or not ... if the client doesn't want to cooperate, you can't tell when the person read it. All you could do is tell when a client downloaded it from dovecot...which doesn't say much for clients that are left on 24/7...