How do you know (status) whether the recipent of your mail had opened the mail i.e read the mail?

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hanndev

  • Sep 14th, 2006
 

You have to write some Javascript code in HTML formatted Email that sends you/your server message saying that the page is opened. But this can be controlled by the user. There is similar ways with other technologies, but in all cases it is unreliable. You cant write a program that runs on client machine to track client events without its permission.

Raymond Chow

  • Sep 27th, 2006
 

Having the html email to execute a Javascript segment may be too much.  But embed an URL in a say 0-byte image tag may be the better way to go.  In other word, you emded a invisible image on you html email and when the src URL is being rendered by the server, you can track whether your recipients have view the emails or not.

Vineet

  • Sep 6th, 2007
 

If user's email client is blocking images by default(yahoo mail, gmail) then this method is not reliable.

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