Email tracking how-to guides: Outlook + Gmail setup, cold email tips
Every guide is updated for 2026 mailbox-provider behaviour: Apple MPP, corporate scanners, Gmail image proxy, Office.js for New Outlook. Each one has prerequisites, numbered steps, troubleshooting, and FAQs.
How to track emails in Outlook
Step-by-step guide to enabling email tracking in Outlook Desktop, Outlook on the Web, and New Outlook in 2026. Cover Office.js add-in install, tracking pixel setup, confidence-scored opens.
How to track emails in Gmail
Step-by-step guide to enabling email tracking in Gmail via Chrome extension in 2026. Install, OAuth, tracking-pixel setup, confidence-scored opens.
How to know if someone opened your email
The reliable ways to know if your email was opened in 2026, including the limits of pixel tracking under Apple MPP and corporate scanners, and what confidence-scored tracking actually proves.
How to add tracking to Outlook emails
Add email open and click tracking to Outlook in 5 minutes. Office.js add-in install, sign in, toggle tracking, verify the first opens. Works on Outlook Desktop, Web, and New Outlook.
How to set up email tracking in Gmail
Install email tracking on Gmail in 2 minutes via Chrome extension. Step-by-step OAuth, send your first tracked email, see confidence-scored opens.
How to disable email tracking
Two angles: how to disable tracking on outbound email you send (privacy or compliance), and how to block trackers on inbound email you receive. Plus how to detect when a tracker is in use.
How to check if an email was read
The reliable ways to check if an email you sent was actually read in 2026. Tracking pixel basics, confidence-scored opens, reply signals, and what to do when tracking is uncertain.
How to track email opens without the recipient knowing
Track email opens silently in 2026: no branded footer, no UX indicator, and a few advanced tactics that reduce pixel detection by privacy-conscious recipients.
How to track emails in New Outlook
New Outlook only supports Office.js add-ins. Classic COM add-ins don't load. Here is the install path for tracking on New Outlook, plus what to expect during the migration.
How to fix email tracking not working
Diagnose and fix email tracking that's not firing opens or clicks. Pixel blockers, image-loading defaults, scanner interference, OAuth expiration, and what each looks like.
How to set up an SPF record
Step-by-step guide to publishing an SPF DNS TXT record in 2026: syntax, includes, the 10-lookup limit, hard fail vs soft fail, verification, and the most common misconfigurations to avoid.
How to set up DKIM signing
Step-by-step guide to enabling DKIM signing on your sending domain in 2026: selector generation, public key publishing in DNS, verification, and the common gotchas around key rotation and body modification.
How to set up a DMARC policy
Step-by-step guide to publishing DMARC in 2026: the three policy modes (none / quarantine / reject), aggregate reports (rua), failure reports (ruf), the ramp-up path from monitor to enforce.
How to warm up an email domain
Warm up a new sending domain over 4-8 weeks to land in inbox. Day-by-day volume ramp, engagement-pool tools, when to use a dedicated warmup service, what to avoid.
How to write a cold email that gets replies
Frameworks for writing B2B cold emails in 2026 that hit 3-8% reply rates. Hook, value, ask. Personalization patterns. Subject lines. Length. The mistakes that kill reply rate.
How to avoid the spam folder for cold email
Cold email landing in spam in 2026? Authentication checklist (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), domain warmup, list quality, content patterns, the 0.3% complaint-rate threshold, and how to diagnose where the inbox-placement leak is.
How to measure email open rate accurately
Raw open rate in 2026 is 2-3x inflated by Apple MPP, corporate scanners, and Gmail proxy. Here is how to measure real human-read rate using confidence-scored opens.
How to improve email deliverability
Action plan for improving inbox placement in 2026. Authentication audit, sender reputation rebuild, list hygiene, content patterns, the order to attack each lever.