Re: [PHP] Mail with acknowledgement of delivery
On Wed, March 30, 2005 8:31 am, marc serra said: I got a problem with mail function. I want to know if it's possible to send a email in php and to get back an acknowledgement of delivery. My problem is that i want to know if my emails are delivered successfully to recipients. Can you please tell how to do this if there is a solution. There really is *NOT* a solution for this, unless you send the recipient a unique token, and get them to click on a link that tells you they saw it. Even that, somebody somewhere *could* write a script to fool you, unless you also try to check that they are human when the click with one of those warped text images. Google for 'captcha' Things that fail, and why/how: Return-receipt: The original plan was to have email clients return a receipt when an email was opened. Alas, privacy considerations, sheer volume of traffic, and people sending them to lists of THOUSANDS of recipients made these completely useless. Embed image with unique URL in HTML-enhanced (cough, cough) email: Again, privacy concerns mean some people will force this to not work. Plus, many email clients don't (or were configured not to) do HTML enhanced email. Security issues with HTML-enhanced email and privacy concerns killed it. When you get right down to it, I guess the bottom line is always: It's none of your damn business when/if I read your stupid email. :-) -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Mail with acknowledgement of delivery
Hi, I got a problem with mail function. I want to know if it's possible to send a email in php and to get back an acknowledgement of delivery. My problem is that i want to know if my emails are delivered successfully to recipients. Can you please tell how to do this if there is a solution. thank you in advance, Marc. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Mail with acknowledgement of delivery
Hello marc, Wednesday, March 30, 2005, 8:31:48 AM, you wrote: m I got a problem with mail function. I want to know if it's possible m to send a email in php and to get back an acknowledgement of m delivery. My problem is that i want to know if my emails are m delivered successfully to recipients. About the only way to do that is to add a Return-Path header to the e-mail so if it bounces the Return-Path address gets the bounce message. There is no way to do it more or less real-time because some SMTP servers will try to send the message to the recipient for sometimes five days before generating a bounce. -- Leif (TB lists moderator and fellow end user). Using The Bat! 3.0.9.9 Return (pre-beta) under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 on a Pentium 4 2GHz with 512MB -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Mail with acknowledgement of delivery
The mail() function allows you to specify additional headers that go into the mail. Delivery acknowledgement is done using specific headers, the exact format of which I don't know off hand. You will have to find the exact formatting information yourself, however this is the way to go. Markus On Wednesday 30 March 2005 17:31, marc serra wrote: Hi, I got a problem with mail function. I want to know if it's possible to send a email in php and to get back an acknowledgement of delivery. My problem is that i want to know if my emails are delivered successfully to recipients. Can you please tell how to do this if there is a solution. thank you in advance, Marc. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
