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  • rahul sinha

    #1

    Mail tracking

    Please help me to find a email class which contains the functions
    for sending email as well as email tracking.
    Thanks
    Rahul S

  • Sarel

    #2
    Re: Mail tracking

    On May 16, 8:21 am, rahul sinha <rahul...@gmail .comwrote:
    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?

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    • rahul sinha

      #3
      Re: Mail tracking

      On May 16, 2:35 pm, Sarel <sare...@gmail. comwrote:
      On May 16, 8:21 am, rahul sinha <rahul...@gmail .comwrote:
      >
      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..

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      • Jerry Stuckle

        #4
        Re: Mail tracking

        rahul sinha wrote:
        On May 16, 2:35 pm, Sarel <sare...@gmail. comwrote:
        >On May 16, 8:21 am, rahul sinha <rahul...@gmail .comwrote:
        >>
        >> 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.
        jstucklex@attgl obal.net
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        • Sarel

          #5
          Re: Mail tracking

          On May 17, 1:29 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attg lobal.netwrote:
          rahul sinha wrote:
          On May 16, 2:35 pm, Sarel <sare...@gmail. comwrote:
          On May 16, 8:21 am, rahul sinha <rahul...@gmail .comwrote:
          >
          > 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.
          >
          --
          =============== ===
          Remove the "x" from my email address
          Jerry Stuckle
          JDS Computer Training Corp.
          jstuck...@attgl obal.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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          • Evil Otto

            #6
            Re: Mail tracking

            On May 16, 8:11 am, Sarel <sare...@gmail. comwrote:
            On May 17, 1:29 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attg lobal.netwrote:
            >
            >
            >
            rahul sinha wrote:
            On May 16, 2:35 pm, Sarel <sare...@gmail. comwrote:
            >On May 16, 8:21 am, rahul sinha <rahul...@gmail .comwrote:
            >
            >> 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.
            >
            --
            =============== ===
            Remove the "x" from my email address
            Jerry Stuckle
            JDS Computer Training Corp.
            jstuck...@attgl obal.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.
            Something else that should be mentioned is that there are privacy
            implications with this situation as well. I don't really want you to
            know when I open your email, lest you have some marketing (or equally
            sinister) motivation in mind. If you were seriously evil (read:
            marketing) you could argue that opening your email established a
            business relationship with me and use it as an excuse to telemarket in
            a way that the Do Not Call list would allow.

            That might be extreme. Bottom line is, you don't need to know when I
            open your email.

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            • Jerry Stuckle

              #7
              Re: Mail tracking

              Sarel wrote:
              On May 17, 1:29 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attg lobal.netwrote:
              >rahul sinha wrote:
              >>On May 16, 2:35 pm, Sarel <sare...@gmail. comwrote:
              >>>On May 16, 8:21 am, rahul sinha <rahul...@gmail .comwrote:
              >>>> 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.
              >>
              >--
              >============== ====
              >Remove the "x" from my email address
              >Jerry Stuckle
              >JDS Computer Training Corp.
              >jstuck...@attg lobal.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.
              >
              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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              jstucklex@attgl obal.net
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