Source: http://lifehacker.com/use-google-analytics-to-track-outgoing-gmail-messages-1376730096
We've shown you before how to track your outgoing emails
In the video above, engineer Amit Agarwal shows how to use this Google Drive spreadsheet script to set an Event tracker on an individual email. The process requires you to have a Google Analytics account (which is free, but requires a bit of set up), but once you're done it's relatively easy to add the tracker to an email, which can be handy for that one really important message you need to know has been seen.
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