When a contact just views an email in the reading pane of Outlook does that count as "opening" an email? Helena
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Best reply by William A
Hello @HelenaJ80 ,
It will only count if the 1x1 transparent tracking pixel is allowed to download/display. If the recipient doesn't allow images to download/display, then the open won't be able to be tracked.
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