How to get a read receipt in Yahoo Mail

First, the reality

There is no read-receipt setting hidden in Yahoo Mail — see does Yahoo Mail have read receipts for the full picture. To know when your Yahoo email is opened, you add a tracker that injects the read receipt for you. Vidi is one of the few that supports Yahoo Mail — most trackers are Gmail-only.

Step by step

1. Install the Vidi extension. Add Vidi from the Chrome Web Store in a desktop Chrome browser.
2. Sign in and subscribe. Create your account and pick a plan (every plan has a 30-day money-back guarantee; cancel anytime in two clicks).
3. Open Yahoo Mail and compose as normal. Nothing about how you write or send changes — Vidi runs quietly in the background.
4. Send your email. A single grey tick appears to confirm it’s on its way.
5. Watch for the green ticks. The moment the recipient opens your email, the grey tick becomes two green ticks. That’s your read receipt.

What the ticks mean

• One grey tick — sent.
• Two green ticks — opened by a real person.

Vidi only turns the ticks green on a genuine human open. Automated pre-fetches such as Apple Mail Privacy Protection are recorded honestly rather than faked as a read — more in Apple Mail Privacy Protection and open tracking.

Do you send from more than one inbox?

If some of your email also lives in Outlook.com or Gmail, the same Vidi extension covers those too — one install, every inbox. Ready to try it? Get started with Vidi.