iTrackMail - Email Tracking

I knocked off a star because the “share” feature (with short link) does not work anymore. Otherwise, everything else in app works great, even the free version. It shows more details then similar products, such as full user agent (iPad version only) or geographic description of the source IP (and yes, it shows the IP address too). That last bit saves you a manual Whois lookup of the source IP just to figure out where in the world the user is. Why does it show California when you know the user is in another state? Because the user that “opened” your email is using Gmail or similar webmail or custom mail client/app, and those mail servers (in California) process the embedded images then serve them to the user. It’s why some people don’t like Gmail and other web-based email since it is difficult to turn off web beacons, canaries, web bugs, whatever you want to call marketing tracking techniques. Fun fact: Gmail triggers embedded trackers when you load your inbox, even before you open the specific message. So marketing (and spammers) know the recipient email is legit. If the recipient opens the email in the iOS native mail client and they allow loading of embedded images (off by default on my iPhone...maybe that was a custom setting I chose) then it will trigger the web beacon placed by iTrackMail, and you will see the person’s actual IP address (i.e. their ISP router eternal interface).

I bought this app “pro version”. I send the email I wanted tracked- awesome it worked.. the app then showed it had been opened several more times. I went to my “sent” emails to reread the email- it counted as me reading it.. so now every time I Open my email (not the actual email being tracked) it shows it’s been read Again.. so now I’m wondering if the person I sent the tracked email to is even reading it several times or are they just opening their regular email like I am..??!! ALSO- I selected to get notifications when the email is read, that doesn’t work either- I literally have to open the iTrackMail app to see if it’s read. Please FIX This..

Now every time you open the email thread sent to target to read or reply you get multiple repeated Notifications instead of for just when they read it! This is highly annoying and you end up with 60 notifications that your email was opened mostly by you instead of just target- it did not do this before- please fix it asap

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Got this to use to track, including ip-address for business ... it only shows California. No other info. Garbage!!!!! Wasted money. I can’t believe people can sell app’s that are Scams like this one! I will definitely be disputing this with my bank as you all should. It’s suggested that it provides the IP address, location, state and city, everything I’ve never tried to track shows unknown, Or California. I have no idea who is opening my emails I’ve been sending but this is ridiculous. Do not waste your money at all. The only thing it tracks is when you open an email that you’ve already sent to someone else.

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Update: Stopped working completely! Not tracking at all. Also inserts “This email sent by itrackmail” in every email even though I have purchased the upgrade. Found a better app. Update: The notifications are working again! Maybe it was an Apple issue? Original review: This app used to notify you each time an email was opened. Now you must open the app to see if the email has been read. I liked the old way better. Maybe they could make the notification optional? If it gave a notification when opened, it would be 5 stars!