# Email open notifications

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/email-open-notifications/82249>\
**Category:** Outlook Sales Extension\
**Tags:** free\
**Created:** [May 30, 2023, 11:24am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/email-open-notifications/82249 "2023-05-30T11:24:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![SHelberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7c8e57/32.png) [@SHelberg](https://community.hubspot.com/u/SHelberg)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2023, 11:24am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/email-open-notifications/82249/1 "2023-05-30T11:24:20Z")

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I track emails with the Hubspot plugin for Outlook. Recently - As in the past week or so - when I send an email, I receive an immediate ‘email opened’ notification.

This is not opened by the recipient - I did a quick test and sent a mail to my personal email and got that notification before I even had a chance to swithc to my email client.

Why would this suddenly start happening?

I saw simialr issues on posts from 2022.

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**Author:** ![karstenkoehler](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/karstenkoehler/32/68554_2.png) [@karstenkoehler](https://community.hubspot.com/u/karstenkoehler)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2023, 11:25am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/email-open-notifications/82249/2 "2023-05-30T11:25:19Z")

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Hi @SHelberg,

Can you check whether you completed all of these steps outlined here? [Block self-open email notifications with the HubSpot Sales Outlook desktop add-in or Chrome extension](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/email-tracking/block-self-open-notifications-with-the-hubspot-sales-outlook-add-in-or-chrome-extension)

Best regards