☎️ Several urban legends would have you believe that when you forward an email, it can somehow be tracked. It cannot. Period. I'll explain why that is.
☎️ Email forward notifications?
For the most part, email you send falls into a conceptual black hole, and you can’t reliably determine if it’s been opened, read, or forwarded. The only way to know for sure is when someone replies or you see some other sign of activity implying someone acted on it.
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0:00 Email forward notification
0:40 No
0:57 Email notification 101
2:00 Read receipts
2:50 Open tracking
5:20 No way to track it
6:00 Forward tracking could be possible on the same service
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