Re: [PHP] tracking forwarded emails using PHP

2009-11-18 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 09:23 -0500, Andrew Ballard wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Ashley Sheridan > wrote: > > I think that people removing themselves from mailing lists is a little > > extreme. I wouldn't remove myself just because I thought I was being > > tracked. > > You might n

Re: [PHP] tracking forwarded emails using PHP

2009-11-18 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > I  think that people removing themselves from mailing lists is a little > extreme. I wouldn't remove myself just because I thought I was being tracked. You might not, but some people will. One (of many) of the problems with that approach

Re: [PHP] tracking forwarded emails using PHP

2009-11-18 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 09:04 -0500, Andrew Ballard wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Angus Mann wrote: > > 1. Is possible. Google the term web-bug. Be prepared that it will only work > > if the recipient has a HTML enabled email reader AND allows downloading of > > images. Be prepared also

Re: [PHP] tracking forwarded emails using PHP

2009-11-18 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Angus Mann wrote: > 1. Is possible. Google the term web-bug. Be prepared that it will only work > if the recipient has a HTML enabled email reader AND allows downloading of > images. Be prepared also that every time the email (including forwarded > emails) are view

Re: [PHP] tracking forwarded emails using PHP

2009-11-18 Thread Angus Mann
, and *assume* it was forwarded but there are lots of other explanations other than forwarding. - Original Message - From: "Angelo Zanetti" To: Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:32 PM Subject: [PHP] tracking forwarded emails using PHP Hi all, I want to develop a ne

[PHP] tracking forwarded emails using PHP

2009-11-18 Thread Angelo Zanetti
Hi all, I want to develop a newsletter system, where by users can create newsletters and send them to recipients, that's not a problem. I want to be able to track certain things: 1. When an email is opened. I think this can be done with an img tag where the src is a php script. We can then trac