Question

I’m working on making our email sending tool better and more complete by adding reports on how many of the sent emails have been successfully sent, recieved, opened, etc. for a client with special requests. I’ve looked around and couldnt find any reliable way to tell if a recipient opened the email as it seems like Read Receipt requests are usually ignored by most email clients.

Is there any way to do it reliably or am I stuck with the unreliable read receipt request method?

Answer 1

You can do that with a simple image (HTML Mails Only) in the mail …

Something like this

<img src="http://domain.com/tracker.php?emailHash=xxx&emailID=99" width=1 height=1>

tracker.php would contain a simple script that can keep track of the user information

For more Information See

Track Email Open

How to make a simple tracking image with PHP