In the CFM file, you can do either of these:
Use this if the image doesn't reside on your server.
<CFHEADER NAME="Content-type" Value"image/gif">
<CFHEADER NAME="Location" Value="#IMAGE#">
or, use this if the image is on your server
<cfcontent type="image/gif" file="c:\images\Blank.gif">
Chris
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Original Message
From: "Gavin Myers"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: HTML Email Tracking
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:02:07 -0500
>i don't think you can do anything in an html e-mail campaign other then
>html. Even javascript wont work 98% of the time. What about setting the
>images you are going to use aside from the rest of your web directory like
>put them in
>www.mydomain.com/htmlemailcampaign/imagepool/
>link them to the html document and use web trends to track each time those
>images get hit?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sean Daniels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 11:29 AM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: HTML Email Tracking
>
>
>I feel like I've seen this done before, but I can't for the life of me
>figure out how to get it to work.
>
>What I have is a marketing email that is going out HTML formatted. I want
to
>include in it a reference to an image file. I've heard that some people
have
>successfully referenced a CFM file in the src of the image that would allow
>you to have some code executed each time the image was grabbed. Then you
use
>cfcontent maybe to push out an actual image.
>
>Anyone got some code that shows how this is actually done? I've tried just:
>
><img src="thefile.cfm" height=1 width=1 border=0>
>
>The code in thefile.cfm doesn't get run though. All it does by the way is
>increment a counter in a db table.
>
>TIA
>
>- Sean
>
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