SendGrid email read confirmation - sendgrid

I want to collect information about how many emails that I have sent, has been read. I want to use method where I will put image in email and once the image gets rendered I can catch that event. I know this is not hundred percent reliable.
I am using a SendGrid for sending my emails. I was wondering does SendGrid provides service like this?
I was looking through SendGrid documentation but was not able to find what I need.

You want to use the Open Tracking app. You can also enable, disable, and configure this app via the web API or SMTP API headers.

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What email list-send services allow suppression based on reply content?

I'm looking at a variety of mailing services, Mailgun, Amazon SES, SendGrid. Does any one of those services have a way to automatically suppress based on the content of a reply email?
Usually it is customary to use an unsubscribe button, but occasionally a user will reply instead - is there any good documentation or service out there which will parse the title and body of the email for the word unsubscribe - and then automatically blacklist that email?
Thanks!
I don't think this is a widely supported use-case anymore, and I don't know of any services that handle that.
With SendGrid, it'd be pretty straightforward to add this functionality, between the Parse Webhook & the API Unsubscribes.add call.

Google gmail quickbutton action

I'm reading about the new development of Google quick action buttons in the mail inbox.
I'm a little bit lost in this topic and not understand how I can include this function in my emails.
I have read about DKIM/SPF but I don't know if this functionality could need to do an google app.
I have my mail server with marketing segmentation and I want this button is visible when email come to client (destiny) gmail inbox (guess only works in gmail....). If i have included the markup code in html in my emails, why i can't see this button?
would it need create a specific mail application to implement this feature and send emails from this app? Someone tried this?
I know maybe this has been reply before but i think must start more down... so.. sorry.
Thanks and regards!
When you are ready to launch your marked up emails to your users, you will need to register with Google. Please follow this process:
1.Send a real-life email coming from your production servers (or a server with similar DKIM/SPF/From:/Return-Path: headers) including the markup / schema to schema.whitelisting+sample#gmail.com.
2.If you send a test/blank email, an email that does not contain schema or if you don't send an email for review your application will be silently discarded.
3.Make sure that the markup is correct prior to sending the email. For more details see Testing your Schema. Especially make sure the email passes the Email markup Tester and that there are no errors, also make sure to include as much data as possible.
4.Gmail removes all markup when forwarding an email. Do not forward the email but send it directly.
Fill out the registration form available here.
Here is the link for the documentation.
Hope this helps!!
Are you sending a promotional email (offers, etc.)?
If yes, then you are likely to be delivered to the Promotions tab, where quick actions do not work (according to Litmus - https://litmus.com/ebooks/gmail-ebook/gmail-ebook/).
Quick Actions work best in the Inbox for transactional emails.
("Here is your booking confirmation" [Check-in now] quick action)
These typically arrive directly in the Inbox.

sendgrid email via X-SMTP

I am trying to figure out how can I make it possible to send an email from my
application to Sendgrid and have it come back.
I want to use coldfusion to send an email using X-SMTP API. I found a documentation
online here but still wondering if there's any documentation available other
than the web API one?
http://thehatrack.net/blog/integrating-sendgrid-with-your-coldfusion-application/
SendGrid's Event Webhook is the only way to get email reads on an individual basis. This will POST an event to your server every time an email is read (among several other events).
The only "pull" based solution to get individual email events from SendGrid is the bounces endpoint, which will tell you when an email bounces (and is certainly not read), but nothing else.
If you want to retrieve individual read events from SendGrid, you'll need to connect the Event Webhook to an external service like Keen.io, and then leveraging their API to get individual events.

Best way to send a bunch of emails without user input on iOS?

First, let me get this out of the way and say this isn't a spam application. I'm writing an app that allows users to share files with multiple friends easily via email.
Right now, I'm using SKPSMTPMessage to send out emails to a list of recipients at the user's request. It works, but I wonder if there isn't a better solution here. For example, if it might be better to send the smtp info and attachments to my server, and conduct the sending from there in order to avoid repetitive attachment uploads on the device.
I am also considering how to handle cases where there is no connection available (determining connection error vs other kinds of errors and persisting the failed message for a later retry).
Any advice on the best way to structure this service would be greatly appreciated.
In order to customize the user experience for sending e-mail you need access to their email details, IMAP, POP, etc. if you want that user to be the one sending the e-mail.
The solution I use is to have the from address be an e-mail I control and use a 3rd party email provider, ex: SendGrid, PostMark, Mandrill and plug in to their api's to send e-mails.

automatic background email from iphone application to users

I am so confused. My simple requirement is: i have an application which contains confirmation form i.e. nib file. It contains some textFields like name, age, email etc. I simply want when somebody click on submit button application send background and automatic email to email defined in textField. that email contain all information like name, age etc. User need not to fil anything and it should work in background. There are so many application do the same thing. I am creating booking application.
So how can i impliment this behaviour.
Apple does not provide a way to do this - and for good reason. Sending emails from the phone automatically introduces a lot of security risks.
I am willing to bet that the apps that do this use an intermediary server to which they post the data. When the data is posted then the server handles the sending of the emails.
To do this:
Send an HTTPS POST request to your server application.
From your server application, send an email via SMTP (or APIs built on top of SMTP).
Google AppEngine provides a simple and cheap way to create such a web service, running on top of Google's cloud-computing infrastructure. The sending mail from AppEngine help document includes detailed examples of how to send mail from your server application (assuming you use the Python version of Google AppEngine).
Unfortunately, there is no official feature for this but you could download a third-party library. Refer here for a couple of suggestions.