fortnox007 Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 Hi all, I was just thinking that it might be possible to find out if someone read an email. If someone might want to share his thoughts on the following I would be really happy The idea i had is that instead of requiring a receipt to sign, which most free email providers don't provide. Instead send an html email with an external image with a unique name for the receiver. Ones the receiver opens the email it requests the image. This probbably isn not fool proof since someone can view in plain text, but it might be a nice thought. Is there maybe a way to track how often an image is requested and perhaps from where (IP or so). Which might not be usefull since it will come from a general email provider. This idea just popped up for me and i thought it could be nice to chat about it. If someone knows a better tracker way which is still customer friendly I would love to know : ) The idea is that in some cases it might me nice to remind someone if they didn't opn an email. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbones Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 That is known as a web beacon. Calling a php image file that stores data about the user. Web Beacon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortnox007 Posted November 8, 2010 Author Share Posted November 8, 2010 crap that there goes my milion dollar idea. Thing though how to know if someone checked it? I was thinking a few minutes ago to make a url to a fake image like mydomain.com/whateveriwant/randomimage1234.jpg Which will pop up an error page with php on it that sees the the url and puts it in a database. Does that make sense or is there a better way. I read your wiki you send but they only tell beacon part. -edit oh there have a way to append stuff (like: www.domain.com/image.gif?user@emaail.com) to the image, but i am afraid that get stripped out. edit hehe that fake url totaly messed up the regex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortnox007 Posted November 8, 2010 Author Share Posted November 8, 2010 hmm maybe i should let this Idea go, in the wiki this is mostly linked to spammers and i don't want to be associated with them Thanks for the help though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkfreaks Posted November 8, 2010 Share Posted November 8, 2010 script for tracking bounced emails: http://phpclasses.elib.com/package/2691-PHP-Parse-bounced-e-mail-message-reports.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortnox007 Posted November 8, 2010 Author Share Posted November 8, 2010 Thx darkfreaks, that probbaly will come in handy! cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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