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email opened
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 6:22 am
by gecko
does anyone know whether there is a way to check wheter someone has opened an email sent through the mail function.
thanks
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 7:59 am
by m3mn0n
That's an invasion of privacy in my opinion, but there is a way to request the user send you a receipt.
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 8:15 am
by twigletmac
Heh, just did tried this myself to see if I could force a read receipt for e-mails sent through our web site to internal users (to check if they are bothering to look at the mail sent to generic e-mail boxes). I found these two headers:
for delivery receipts (which worked for me although did not send e-mail to the address I specified) and
for read receipts (which did not work for me). Maybe a Google on those will give you more info.
Mac
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 9:23 am
by choppsta
With read receipts it's ultimately up to the recipient to decide whether or not they respond. So it's not that useful.
If you send an HTML email, you can include a small img tag that triggers a PHP script to confirm that it's been read (or do other things). This can be quite effective. But this obviously relies on the recipient having an email client that can read HTML.
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 3:22 pm
by Derfel Cadarn
choppsta wrote:
If you send an HTML email, you can include a small img tag that triggers a PHP script to confirm that it's been read (or do other things). This can be quite effective. But this obviously relies on the recipient having an email client that can read HTML.
Or a recipient using a browser like Mozilla and having switched OFF the HTML-e-mail to stop spammers.....! I might be paranoid, but someone sending me an e-mail in HTML-format has no chance with me!
