Pointofmail Review: Certified Email Service

What We Like

Pointofmail offers a mode where reading confirmation is guaranteed
It's easy to send pointofmail-certified emails from any email program or service
Pointofmail can track attachments, too, and lets you edit or delete mail after it has been sent

What We Don't Like

Pointofmail has modes that are not transparent to the recipient, infringing on their privacy
Mail sent through pointofmail can be difficult to reply to or forward
Pointofmail does not allow you to specify options if you send from your normal email program

Pointofmail is a free, very comprehensive proof of receipt and reading service for email. Pointofmail can ensure read receipts, tracks attachments and lets you modify or delete sent messages. Unfortunately, working with pointofmail-certified mail can be cumbersome, and most Pointofmail modes do not inform the recipient they are watched.

Services provided by Pointofmail include:

Tracking all email opens and reads as well as forwarding events
Knowing exactly who opened the email even when sending email to multiple recipients
Advanced Tracking mode, which guarantees that you will be notified when your email content gets read
Knowing if recipients are opening email on their computer or mobile device
Improving your timing and context when cold calling your prospect
Recalling sent email
Sending self-destructing emails based on your conditions
Real-Time self-destructing - email disappears while recipient reads it
Disabling email forwarding, copying or printing
Updating content of sent email, and add or remove links and attachments to sent email
Full Tracking Details also for link clicking. Know where they was clicked and forwarded
Knowing which links at your email work best
Knowing if link was clicked on desktop or mobile PC
Monitoring how fast links being clicked after opening email
Getting notification each time link clicked or attachment opened
Send, Read, Click and Attachment Open notifications

Getting notifications on mobile, not only Desktop PC
Real-Time Web Notifications in Outbox containing all tracking information, clearly presented with search, sorting and group options
Seamlessly integrating Pointofmail.com Tracking Events to your application with HTTP API

Review

Pointofmail is a particularly feature-rich email return receipt service. Not only does it tell you when your messages have been opened, but it can also do the same for attachments and allows you to edit or delete emails even after they have been sent.

Pointofmail even tells you how long an email was looked at and where on earth the recipient was while doing this. To offer this multitude of options, Pointofmail employs a number of sending modes.

Regrettably, most Pointofmail modes are not transparent to the recipient. Since modern email clients do not download remote images — used by Pointofmail to track emails — by default, the recipient can only speculate and not load the hidden pictures.

Also, the mode used for a message cannot be set if the mail is sent from your normal email client (instead of Pointofmail's web interface), which is otherwise a really comfortable way to send certified messages.