Verdict
A great little tool which will quickly become a permanent fixture on your PCReview Rating:
Platform: Windows XP
Manufacturer: Fisher Young Group
Size: 1.11MB
Number of Downloads: 1772
Price: $ 0.00
MSGTAG Free (Message Tag) is a nifty little freebie that ensures you always know when your emails have been received and viewed.
It is compatible with almost all desktop email clients, including Outlook Express, Mozilla Mail, Thunderbird, Incredimail, Eudora and Pegasus Mail.
A tiny icon sits in your system tray, from where you can activate and deactivate the MSGTAG tagging.
Activate tagging and MSGTAG will send you a confirmation email whenever an email is received. It informs you when the email was sent, when it was viewed and the elapsed time in between.
At no time is your privacy violated, and the confirmation email is sent automatically, with no intervention required from the recipient.
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Uselessly unreliable
Msgtag uses the same technique ("web bugs") spammers use, to know which e-mails have been viewed. It worked in 2003 but all recent e-mail software defaults to blocking it. It's so unreliable that it's worse that not using it at all. Do a Google search for "msgtag negative" to read a user's story.
Posted by Bob, 20 Mar 2007
Works ok for me!
Messagetag works ok for me and and is very reliable. It can be blocked by recipients' firewalls and HOSTS files, but more often than not I get a reply.
It does not seem to work if anti-virus scanning is active on the senders pc, due to the av prog intercepting the email before the tag is attached, as both systems use the local host address. Perhaps this is where the problems lie.
Posted by Ianrj, 18 Mar 2007
Don't waste your time or money.
MSGTAG probably worked well back in 2003. In 2007 it's so unreliable that it's worse than not having it at all. That's because all modern e-mail programs block the spammer technique used by Msgtag to function. By all means try the free version of Msgtag to confirm what I've just written, but don't pay for any of their up-market products like I did. I persevered for 5 months before asking Msgtag for a partial or complete refund, and they point-blank refused.
Posted by Bob, 16 Mar 2007