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> You just can't measure whether someone _saw_ your email, which is all that matters to email users. You can still measure deliverability with different method
by baobabKoodaa 5y ago
> You just can't measure whether someone _saw_ your email, which is all that matters to email users.
You can still measure deliverability with different methods. I've used GlockApps to send test emails to a variety of different inboxes at different providers and it tells me what percent of those emails hit the inbox, what percent went to spam folder, and what percent disappeared.
- mattbee 5y agoYes! That site is great as a spot check, I've used it. But imo if gmx.de are silently binning my messages (and nobody else) it's their problem. If it's Gmail, it's my problem :)
- denton-scratch 5y agoWatever GlockApps is, there's no way it can tell whether my local rules moved a message to my spam folder. It also can't tell whether my mailserver moved it to spam using my Sieve filters. Therefore it also can't tell whether the email appeared in my Inbox. I'm not sure what "disappeared" means in this context; perhaps that's the same as "dropped on the floor". The whole reason why dropping email on the floor is A Bad Thing is that doing that makes it impossible to tell whether the message has been delivered at all. [Edit] Ah, I see. GlockApps can only tell you about the destiny of your outgoing email if the destination was one of a handful of big freemail providers; and I imagine you'd have to provide GlockApps with credentials to the recipient accounts, so that it can see if the mail ended up in Inbox or Spam. You could do that with a few lines of Bash script.