No my tag is  MSGTAG, and tells me that a recipient of my e-mail has opened it, they cannot change it's status, as soon as the e-mail is opened I receive an e-mail telling me so, it is not the OE read receipt.

I also threatened them with Ofcom ASA and Trading Standards.

Here is their home page, I use it on OE but don't see why it is not compatable with other servers,  http://www.msgtag.com/home/

There is the free option where the tag is always on and the recipient will always see it, then you can purchase an upgrade where you can turn off the facility for the recipient to see it.

I would assume there are more of a similar ilk out there, but I do not know of them, maybe a Google search would reveal something.

derrick wrote on Feb 6^th, 2007 at 10:29am:


If they convert all HTML emails to plain text, as many more paranoid and/or old fashioned business email systems do, then you wouldn't get an MSGTAG confirmation message as the providers of the software themselves make clear.

derrick wrote on Feb 6^th, 2007 at 2:23pm:


I have ruled out using www.readnotify.com as the outgoing emails appear to get routed via their website (all sorts of privacy implications there) and more importantly their website is as slow as a dog and all pages take ages to appear today.

Equally importantly its an annual renewable subscription service and they limit you to only 2,000 outgoing emails a year on even their most expensive service.  This is only just over 5 per day, which is far too low for a paid service.  The claims they make are impressive about what you can tell has happened to your email (a lot more than MSGTAG's top service offers) but only because it has gone via their servers and had all sorts of stuff added to it I would imagine

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If you go for the top MSGTAG service you can go for the option where people who only support plain text email reading can't open your email at all unless they agree manually to send a confirmation via the website that the message has been received but obviously a lot of people then might just not read your message fearing it is spam or a virus if its not someone that you normally communicate with.

As to uninstalling it does just seem to be a case of replacing the word localhost in your outgoing SMTP server for the email accounts in question with the actual SMTP server of your email provides that was originally there.  Obviously though the program's installer ought to be able to put this back in when it uninstalls as it clearly has this info to send your outgoing email on to once it has reformatted the email to contain MSGTAG website hyperlink.  I suppose they couldn't be bothered as the uninstalling types are generally all ex customers, although it might have helped avoid negative feedback.

I will give the free version a try for a while and see if anyone complains about the visible MSGTAG and website hyperlink in the email or if anyone has any problems reading the email.  It seems this free service along with using Read Receipt when I send to a CC distribution list may be all I need.  Also I may use Read Receipt still for an important message as this gives you a belt and braces approach as many company email systems don't support HTML format emails (necessary for MSGTAG to work) but do support Read Receipt acknowledgement.

I see that Outlook Express does not support Read Receipt requests.  I suppose this may be why you looked for this service in the first place?  I use Microsoft Outlook 2000.

NGMsGhost,

OE does support read receipts, I use it when I can remember, however the recipient can click on NO and therefore I do not know if they received it if they don't bother to reply, whereas MSGTAG tells me, as long as they open it, I have had message read via MSGTAG when e-mailing TS  who despite me asking for read receipt will not do so, they tell me they do not have the facility, but the County Council have sent read receipts and I would assume they use the same ISP as the local council.

I use OE 6 and have sent and received read receipts.

=CM= wrote on Feb 6^th, 2007 at 2:59pm:


I had Norton Antispam which used to treat as Spam any messages with embedded links.  I had to turn that feature off as lots of emails I did want to read also had those links as I think most Norton Antispam users would have found.  Norton Antispam still picks up quite a lot though using the sender name and Subject and certain content in the message that is only used by spammers.

I won't open any message with a stupid subject line or with bizarre American names that are obvious spammers.  Unfortunately every now and then by the rule of an infinite number of spam monkeys sending out an infinite number of emails with infinite subjects they manage to use a name and Subject that looks as though it might be genuine so have to open those messages.

I still scan the Norton Antispam folder for sender name and subject though as every now and then a message that isn't spam appears there.  I then click the button to confirm this isn't a Spam message.