That would be my suggestion as well, however there are many email clients that can switch this off and hence the sender will never know. I know outlook has the ability to switch sending anything back to the sender if you don't want it.
So in short, a link on the page that the user can collect for more information, would be the way I would go. This way you give a snippet and a link for more info. While on the subject, I like what MS do when they send an email every now and again they will send an email to see if it bounces if it is then this email is then removed from the system. Maybe someone else could expand on this, to come up with a more viable solution. -----Original Message----- From: Tracy Bost [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, 29 December 2001 3:30 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Tracking Emails The closer thing I could think of is place something in your mail header s to the effect of X-Confirm-Reading-To: Return-Receipt-To: Many variables would have to fall in place such as the mail server for th e recipient would have to be configured to understand confirm & the recipie nt's email client would have to be able to understand & use return reciept. If all of this is done internally and you can have control over that, may be it could work for you, but for the general public, I wouldn't count on it. Quoting Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I was wondering if there is any possible way to get the > > number of people that actually opened my email I sent them. > > I will need to get this number into a sql database. Please > > help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > Unfortunately for you, there's no tracking information provided by SMTP > mail, to the best of my knowledge. If you send email with HTML content, > you > could include a "tracking" image, and track HTTP requests for that imag e > in > your web server logs, but that doesn't mean that everyone who reads the > message will request the image - many people, myself included, abhor > HTML > email, and tend to delete it outright rather than reading it, or set > their > mail client so it won't render HTML email. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > voice: (202) 797-5496 > fax: (202) 797-5444 > ______________________________________________________________________ Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusiona FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
