Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/26/06 17:19

Ron Barnett wrote:
> "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
>
> For PHP Class libraries try : http://ronbarnett.users.phpclasses.org/
> or Pear . . . .
>
>

Ron,

A lot of people (like myself) now run with images in emails disabled
because spammers use this trick to check for valid email addresses.


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