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Posted by Ron Barnett on 09/26/06 09:42
"Nitro" <jtechmart_inquire@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1159210466.195073.45680@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I recently developed a web app with php which sends emails out via form
> submission. I'ts an eProofing system for a publishing/advertising
> company. Now, I am being asked to provide email reciept of some sort.
> They want to know if the recipient recieved the email. It would be nice
> to know if they checked the email as well.
>
> I've done some searching, but haven't found anything concrete yet on
> how to build this. Right now I'm just looking for a simple solution if
> it's possible. Just to clarify, I'm not looking to check if an email is
> valid. I'm trying to add something that would let us know that the
> email was recieved (and looked at) if possible.
>
> How can this be accomplished?
>
Hi Nitro,
Assuming you can send an HTML email as your response - if not, there are
plenty of libraries to help,
I suggest you include a thumbnail sized image of the document submitted in
the confirmation email.
This should in reality be a link back to your server so that when the user
views his 'proof' he actually make a call to your server which can log the
event.- just make sure the link has a unique ID for tracking. It should
work every time unless the user gets blase' about checking the proof and
simply ignores or deletes the message.
This is somewhat more engaging than a simple read-receipt but a bit more
work.
Cheers
Ron
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