[vox-tech] how to verify email is read

Peter Jay Salzman vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Sun, 31 Mar 2002 07:49:43 -0800


bulk mail, MS outlook, javascript, html email, MS express, hotmail
accounts...

i think you may have missed that left turn at albuquerque...




begin shahzad <shahzad@shebaak.com> 
> Hello,
>  
> I am working on a bulk mail automaton project, so want to track users
> who have read my mail.
> I don't want user to click on any URL and then I will track that he has
> read my mail.
> Also receive notification generated by outlook is also not a good
> solution as many user would 
> be using different web email client.
>  
> One solution is to use java script (By using server side include) and
> send mail in form of HTML.
> But there is a problem in this approach that yahoo and hotmail comments
> your java Script.
> And  it works great on outlook and MS express. 
>  
> Is there any way to solve this issue.
> How can we run JavaScript code in a html in a web client like yahoo or
> hotmail.com to track that.
>  
> Regards,
> Shahzad Sarwar