Sorry I didn't explain this very well in my previous email.
We know how to track email open and stuff through an image reference.
What we are looking for is an email verification script or tool
(perhaps even a command line tool) to check a list of email addresses
from our database for their validity prior to sending out the actual
emails, i.e. DNS, domain, MX records and such, may be even if the
emails are blocked or not. We want to integrate this tool into our
WiTango application.
Hope I have explained what we wanted clearly.
Thanks!
MC
At 09:54 PM 12/15/2006, you wrote:
Email (smtp) is by design a best effort delivery system. There is no
guarantee of delivery, and although you can 'request' a delivery
receipt it is up to the receiving mail program to decide if it wants
to send a 'received' or 'read' receipt.
If you really need to verify that an email has been read, you can do
one of two things. Firstly, write the email in html, with a
reference to an image on your server. Then when the mail is opened,
the image will be loaded. Using unique image names, url arguments
and trapping errors on the server are left as an exercise for the
reader. Be aware that this is a common technique for spammers to
verify an email address, so some spam systems will rate your email.
The second way is to include a url in the email for the end reader
to click on.
Can you tell us a little more about the problem you are trying to solve?
Regards,
Jason.
On 16/12/2006, at 3:26 PM, MC Tay wrote:
Hi:
Does anyone know any scripts or products that verifies emails (not
syntax, but to check the delivery results) and can be integrated with WiTango?
Thanks!
MC
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