Posted by Sarel on 05/16/07 12:11

On May 17, 1:29 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> rahul sinha wrote:
> > On May 16, 2:35 pm, Sarel <sare...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On May 16, 8:21 am, rahul sinha <rahul...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> Please help me to find a email class which contains the functions
> >>> for sending email as well as email tracking.
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Rahul S
> >> What exactly is it that you want to track? As in when people open the
> >> mail or what?
>
> > Yeah..
>
> You can't reliably know when someone opens their email. For instance,
> my email reader is configured to ask before sending an acknowledgment.
> I may or may not acknowledge receipt - depending on who it is and how
> I'm feeling that day.
>
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> Remove the "x" from my email address
> Jerry Stuckle
> JDS Computer Training Corp.
> jstuck...@attglobal.net
> ==================

I agree, there's no reliable way to see whether people have opened
your mail. One way is to have a 1x1 pixel image, that is actually a
PHP script on your server, but then again, people have to have images
set to download automatically for that. Even with that, a lot of
people still go online, download their mail, and then go offline and
read through them - especially home users.

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