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Try this:
Here's where I got it:
Hope This Helps!
ECAR
ECAR Technologies, LLC
"My work is a game, a very serious game." - M.C. Escher
Code:
<cfmail to="test@example.com"
from="test@example.com"
subject="test read receipt">
<cfmailparam name="Read-Receipt-To" value="test@example.com">
<cfmailparam name="Disposition-Notification-To" value="test@example.com">
This is a test for read receipts.
</cfmail>Hope This Helps!
ECAR
ECAR Technologies, LLC
"My work is a game, a very serious game." - M.C. Escher
Also, if you check here, you'll see some examples.
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ECAR
ECAR Technologies, LLC
"My work is a game, a very serious game." - M.C. Escher
Hope This Helps!
ECAR
ECAR Technologies, LLC
"My work is a game, a very serious game." - M.C. Escher
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hmmm
I was looking at it...this is almost but not quite what I needed...
This, I assume will prompt the reader to send a read request...
I want to be able to know if an email has been read with any sort of acknowledgment from the reader...
almost like putting a cfquery in the cfmail and when its opened the running an update to a database
Craig
I was looking at it...this is almost but not quite what I needed...
This, I assume will prompt the reader to send a read request...
I want to be able to know if an email has been read with any sort of acknowledgment from the reader...
almost like putting a cfquery in the cfmail and when its opened the running an update to a database
Craig
Ok, try this. It uses an image imbedded in the email, you can make it a 1x1 clear gif if you want to, just as long as the image code is there. I wish I could give credit for it, but I don't remember where I got it. It's just something I had laying around in my "toolbox". 
Hope This Helps!
ECAR
ECAR Technologies, LLC
"My work is a game, a very serious game." - M.C. Escher
Code:
In the CFM page that's calling CFMAIL, do something like:
<cfmail to="#ToAddress#" from="#FromAddress#" subject="Test, please open" type="HTML">
<html>
<body>
<img src="[URL unfurl="true"]http://yourserver/trackingimage.cfm?email=#URLEncodedFormat(FromAddress)#"[/URL] width="1" height="1" alt="" border="0" />
This is the body of the email.
Whatever whatever
</body>
</html>
</cfmail>
Then, on your server, you place a CFM page called trackingimage.cfm (which, if you notice, is called from an IMG tag in the email message) which has the following code:
<CFCONTENT type="image/gif">
<img src="/images/spacer.gif">
<CFPARAM name="URL.email" default="">
<CFSET decodedEmail = URLDecode(URL.email)>
<CFMAIL to="#admin_address#" from="nobody" subject="email read">
The addressee #decodedEmail# read their email at #DateFormat(Now(),"yyyy/mm/dd")# #TimeFormat(Now(),"HH:mm tt")#.
</CFMAIL>
This works on all clients that are HTML-capable (which is generally a lot more than those that support read receipts), and works whether they have their servers/inboxes set up to allow read receipts or not.Hope This Helps!
ECAR
ECAR Technologies, LLC
"My work is a game, a very serious game." - M.C. Escher
Hi daNewfie,
I don't know if mail clients can except it or not, but if your recipients can accept HTML emails you might be able to place an <iframe> or something similiar within the email, that intern links to a page on your server to records the 'opening' of the email. For example:
The variable client ID could be the users email address, ect... I would be careful using a method like this only because I know that a lot of people (myself included) do not accept HTML emails, only plain text. Not to mention, some mail clients might not render the <iframe> tag or accept the email if it violates its spam policies.
Hope this helps,
jalpino
I don't know if mail clients can except it or not, but if your recipients can accept HTML emails you might be able to place an <iframe> or something similiar within the email, that intern links to a page on your server to records the 'opening' of the email. For example:
Code:
<!--- HTML Email --->
This is some email text...
...
<iframe src="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mydomain.com/recordAcceptance.cfm?clientID=123456"[/URL] width="1" height="1">
Code:
<!--- RecordAcceptance.cfm --->
<cfquery name="myQuery" datasource="myDataSource">
UPDATE T_EmailAcceptanceLog
SET openedEmail = 1
WHERE clientID = 123456
</cfquery>The variable client ID could be the users email address, ect... I would be careful using a method like this only because I know that a lot of people (myself included) do not accept HTML emails, only plain text. Not to mention, some mail clients might not render the <iframe> tag or accept the email if it violates its spam policies.
Hope this helps,
jalpino
Great information on that last post ECAR, I will make use of that example.
Thanks,
Carl
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Thanks,
Carl
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I have one more question to ask that hopefully will stay on topic of this thread. If I email say 200 members at once and lets say some are bad emails. Lets say the 10th email spooled was bad, will the remaining 190 after that still go? Or will the bad email stop the process?
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