Is there a way to check if a sent e-mail has been marked as spam or deleted?
I work with Rails 3.
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Is there a way to check if a sent e-mail has been marked as spam or deleted?
I work with Rails 3.
No, there isn’t. After your mail has been sent to your receiver’s SMTP server, there’s no way to track it down anymore.
I know what you’re thinking: how can some mail-clients track down wether an email has been read or not (e.g. in Outlook). They can do this by adding a little
img-tag to their mails (html). When a user opens the mail, it’ll open the path specified in theimg‘ssrc-attribute. Since that’s a script (like PHP or something), it can automatically sets a flag to ‘seen’ when a mail has been opened.Of course, there are some other ways to track this down, but I think this is the most popular one.
However, this can’t be done to check whether a mail has been rejected, deleted or moved to the spam-folder.