Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 05/16/07 15:33

Sarel wrote:
> 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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>> Jerry Stuckle
>> JDS Computer Training Corp.
>> jstuck...@attglobal.net
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>
> 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.
>

Yep, that's another good point. My reader is set to not display remote
images unless I click on a button. And mail from those I don't know
don't get the button clicked. And a 1x1 pixel image probably wouldn't
be noticeable enough to cause a click, anyway.

Besides - if you want to include a remote image, you need to send it as
html - and some people disable html email, also.


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