If you're using HTML e-mail, you can also include an <IMG> tag where the SRC attribute points at a CF template that creates a cookie on the user's machine. You could then read the cookie when they visit the site.
I don't recommend this, from a privacy standpoint, but you can do it. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 1:20 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Capturing an e-mail address Each email that you send out goes to a person in a DB, right? So each person has an ID, right? So if you put a link of http://www.site.com/index.cfm?userid=2577 then the index.cfm can take the userid and translate it into the person, right? Is that what you want? > I'm exploring the possibility of being able to figure out the e-mail address > of a user visiting our site based on a weekly mailing we send out. In this > e-mail, there is a link to the latest stories, etc., and we'd like to know > who is accessing the stories from the e-mail. > > The problem is that the file sent out to our mass mailing provider is a flat > HTML file, so I can't do anything like dynamically append the person's > e-mail address to the link. > > Anybody done something like this? > > Thanks in advance, > Dave. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com 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
