How to Check if Gmail Is Read. When you send an important email to someone through your Gmail account, you may wish to know when your message was received and read by the recipient. Gmail provides ...

You write an email. No reply. You send another email. No reply. You’re halfway through a third email and you stop. What happened to the first two? Junk folder? Were the messages just ignored?

Here are various ways to know if someone has opened and read your email.

Gmail marks all of your Inbox messages as read. This process may take several seconds or longer if you've accumulated hundreds of unread messages.

This is the unread messages feed for your Gmail account. Check it out in a feed reader or your browser's built-in XML browser—you'll notice the body text is truncated after a few sentences.

How to mark all unread emails as read in AOL 1: When logged-in to your AOL email account, right-click on "Inbox" in the left-hand sidebar, then select "Mark all Messages Read." 2: You're all done!