What is your opinion about a macOS Mail tracker?
Hello, folks,
As today is my birthday, I just wanted to make my first post here, on IH. 🥳
I have started building a product - a macOS Mail(.app) plugin (official e-mail client that is installed by default on Mac), that helps people, especially from business and sales areas to send e-mails that can be tracked.
E.g: you send an e-mail and will be notified when the recipient opens it, from where, how many times and device used.
I have analyzed the market and user needs starting 2 years ago and decided to start the development a few months ago.
What is your opinion about this? Can be useful for you? Would you like to use a tool like this?
Thank you!
Happy birthday :-)
As an email recipient I detest those tracking mechanisms (they usually work by adding a link to an invisible 1x1 pixel image to the email's HTML code). I don't want others to know when I opened an email and on what device. That information is routinely used for continuously nagging or even stalking users.
For that reason I have Little Snitch block all of these requests.
If the recipient didn't open or didn't reply to your email they might've had good reason to do so. As an email sender, don't bother and move on.
Thank you, @BjoernKW!
Your point is good and it's a thing to include in a Fair Usage Policy.
The product is designated mainly for business areas, where people need to know if their partners received their e-mails, without the need of asking for a written confirmation.
Secondly, there are many cases when people need to know if their e-mail was read.
E.g: A freelancer sends an invoice to its customer or a salesman sends an offer and needs to know the customer's interest.
The scope is not to promote is as a stalking tool. It's like read receipts on let's say WhatsApp. :)