ActiveTracker for Outlook Express for Windows

User Reviews

• does not work! a total waste of time

  skely4/26/2006

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  GARBAGE! DO NOT DOWNLOAD

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• Worth checking out

  RichRms9/4/2005

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  My favorite feature is the "self-destructing" email. This feature makes the software worth the free try.

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• Excellent - It does what it says

  stawn12/1/2004

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  I'm baffled by some of the negative comments. I have subscribed to this program for over 3 months and it has let me down only once - their technical support replied within the hour and I fixed the problem there and then (it was my fault). £2 odd a month - brilliant.

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• No Verision For Outlook 2003

  8/16/2004

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  Great idea, sadly only looking at the cut down version of Outlook, i.e. Outlook Express. Would be nice to see a version for Outlook 2003.

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• They do not answer e-mails

  1/23/2004

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  I think as a potential client pating for this that they would have the curtesy to answer e-mail requests.

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• Bogus service. The reviews on C|Net seem posted by the company themselves

  9/23/2003

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  The service is completely unreliable! It works only a small percentage of the time. It doesn't track accurately like it claims to. You'll get tons of junk mail too. Be warned. Stay away from this!

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• Highly recommend the ReadNotify service, but not this plugin

  8/25/2003

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  I am a ReadNotify subscriber and it's definitely the best read-receipt/tracking email service around. When you first install ActiveTracker it will instantly provide you with a free 2 week trial to this service (without any signup process). I have used this plugin and tried another one on beta release from the developer's website and I have uninstalled both after a few days. ActiveTracker was unpredictable on my PC - sometimes it was there when I opened Outlook Express, at other times it was nowhere to be seen. Sometimes it sent my emails, other times not. There are no configurable settings on the plugin itself - if you click on settings you will be taken to the website. What you're really after when you download this plugin is a service that will track your sent emails. Using the Readnotify service does this on its own without this plugin. You only have to add '.readnotify.com' unto the end of your recipient's email address to instantly start using the service - do it now (without downloading or signing up for anything) and that's day one of your trial and you'll receive a welcome email. Basically, this plugin really only provides an 'autotype' function - it adds a button to Outlook Express that saves you having to type '.readnotify.com'- or a few other variations for self-destructing mails and insured/certified mails - which are superfluous really unless you are a power user or need to produce certifiable email receipts to your boss on a regular basis. The '.readnotify.com' extension is enough to provide you with a wealth of tracking information. In my experience, typing readnotify.com sends mail a lot quicker and is definitely more reliable than using this plugin. If like me, your addressbook has less than forty names in it, I would recommend you simply take half an hour of your time to open your addressbook and just add '.readnotify.com' to the email addresses of those recipients you want to track (your recipients won't see this). That way you can use this service quickly and 'unconsciously' without the need for this plugin - which is quite useless in my opinion.

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• Easy & Amazing

  5/8/2003

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  The only e-mail tracker I could find! ReadNotify is easy to use and has lots of other features with a clear & complete manual. It is amazing to see all the information it provides to the sender of e-mail (incl time of receiving, the time spent on reading the mail, location, IP-adres, browser and much more) The "location" in the e-mail tracking history seems to be not working properly (with ...% likelihood, but still bad). Be aware; the trial users have full access to all ReadNotify facilities, ONLY for 25 emails, or 14 days (whichever comes first)!!

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• THE BEST E-MAIL TRACKING

  4/13/2003

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  This is a good program to know every thing about the mails we send,to know when(date), where(the city and the country) and at what time it is opened.It is very secure, never fails.Besides it has many other features that makes it not only the best but the only one in the market.

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• Amazing!

  3/5/2003

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  I didn't even think it was possible to do half this stuff - but it all works exactly as advertised.

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