Email Tracker de MailBolt™

About

MailBolt™ Email Tracker helps you track email opens and link clicks directly inside Gmail, while also detecting common tracking pixels in incoming emails. It adds clear delivery/read indicators in your inbox, a lightweight activity view, and real-time in-page alerts—so you always know what happens after you hit Send.

What It Does:

• Tracks outgoing emails by appending a unique 1×1 tracking pixel to messages you send from Gmail.
• Tracks link clicks by converting links in your email into MailBolt tracking links (if enabled on your MailBolt account/plan).
• Shows Gmail inbox indicators (e.g., “sent” vs “opened”) next to your emails.
• Displays tracking activity and stats via the extension popup (connected to your MailBolt account).
• Detects tracking pixels in incoming emails and marks them with a warning indicator.
• Helps prevent “self-opens” by neutralizing your own tracking pixel when you view your sent messages in Gmail.

Key Features:

• Open tracking: see when recipients open your email.
• Click tracking: see when recipients click links (plan/account feature).
• Inbox status indicators: quick “sent/opened” visual signals without leaving Gmail.
• Recent activity: view the latest opens/clicks from the popup.
• Real-time in-page alerts: toast notifications and optional sound cues when events happen.
• Tracker detection: flags common email tracking technologies, including open-tracking pixels and link-tracking mechanisms used by many third-party email tools.

How It Works:

1. Install the extension.
2. Open Gmail (web).
3. Connect to your MailBolt account (Google sign-in flow).
4. Send emails as usual—MailBolt adds a tracking ID and records events on your MailBolt dashboard.

Privacy & Data Use (Important Disclosure):

• This extension modifies outgoing emails you send from Gmail by inserting a tracking pixel and (optionally) rewriting links for click tracking.
• The extension communicates with MailBolt services at https://app.mailbolt.io/ to authenticate your account and sync tracking status/events.
• The extension saves minimal data locally (such as a session/extension token and cached tracking status) to keep the experience reliable.
• Tracking events are recorded on MailBolt servers so you can view opens/clicks in your dashboard.

Permissions Explained:

• Storage: saves settings and authentication/token state.
• Scripting / Content scripts: injects UI elements into Gmail and hooks into compose/send actions.
• Declarative Net Request: helps prevent unwanted or false tracking loads (e.g., self-open protection).
• Offscreen: plays notification sounds reliably in the background.
• Host permissions:
  - mail.google.com (to run inside Gmail)
  - app.mailbolt.io (to connect to MailBolt services)

Requirements:

• Works on Gmail in a desktop browser (web version).
• A MailBolt™ account is required for tracking and analytics features.