There are many solutions for this, but IMail by itself is insufficient. Tracking click thrus would be done through a link on the website, so that doesn't apply to this. And tracking message views is only possible through embedded dynamic images that are again loaded from a script on a website. Note that this is not 100%, as many users may not view HTML, or may block images. For them nothing can be done to determine if the message was opened. Both of these items have to do with your content and link management on your website, so the mailing system doesn't have anything to do with that.
For the subscription process, the best thing to do is to use a bulk mail system that will personalize every message with a unique subscription link. This allows you to quickly and easily unsubscribe those who complain or report your email as spam, as well as providing quick unsubscribe functionality to the end user. We, and many others, have a web-based newsletter management system that is a subscription service that does just this, as well as allowing you to manage several newsletter types (welcome, standard, special offer, etc.), schedule newsletters, target portions of the subscription base for a newsletters, send currently active newsletters to new subscribers, etc. Newsletters can be HTML or plain text. Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elliott Bujan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "imail_forum" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 11:09 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] Using Imail for e-mail marketing Has someone attempted to use Imail for marketing purposes, like mass mailing? Any suggestions on how to send large amounts of messages for marketing purposes? Any programs or companies that would do this? We would also like to track stats like how many messages were opened, if they visited the link on the message, unsubscribe, delete bad addresses, etc. Nothing is illegal, the recipients agreed at this and they are aware they are / could be in a distribution list for marketing purposes. Elliott -------------------------------------------------------- Elliott Bujan Initial Tropical Plants voice: (847) 634 4250 ext. 99281 fax: (847) 634 6820 -------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
