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Notes on tracking, deliverability, and what a pixel can prove
Written by the people who built Onmindo. One claim per section and a way to check it, not a content calendar dressed up as advice.
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Why naming who opened a group email needs the full Gmail permission
The Gmail API reads the recipients off the To line, so one email to five people is one message. SMTP keeps the envelope apart from the headers, and exactly one Gmail permission reaches SMTP.
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Gmail sending limits, and a warm-up that respects them
Google allows 500 messages a day from a personal Gmail account and 2,000 from Workspace. A cold address sending near either number is the problem.
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A tracking pixel cannot tell you someone read your email
Gmail's image proxy fetches once per reader and once more at delivery. What a fetch proves, what it does not, and how Onmindo tells the two apart instead of guessing.
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Mixmax alternatives for people who are not a sales team
Read-receipt extensions, Gmail-native mini-CRMs, and full sales platforms are three categories wearing one search term. Which one do you actually need?
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