[vox-tech] how to verify email is read

Gabriel Rosa vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Sun, 31 Mar 2002 08:07:39 -0800 (PST)


This sounds like he's trying to write an email virus to me.
I'm not sure where linux fits in.

-Gabe

On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:

> 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.
> >