update my database after receiving of receipient their email

[pattyrelos]

im sending thousands of email once a week and I use smtp and cdonts in asp, now my question is, is there a way to trace or update my database automatically if clients open the email that i sent. I use also the html format as body of my sending email. please give me some code or sample program that trigger the updating of my database automatically

please help

thanks pats

 

[vbkris]

nope u cant do that.

a workaround is ask the client to reply to ur mail with a certain subject, read the incming mails then do something with it.

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

 

[Tarwn]

Actually, this is possible and used quite often by mail spammers, I'll provide an outline real quick:
1) Add an image to your email that has the source set to an asp script on your web server, use the querystring to pass along data such as the receivers address

2) in the asp script put the querystring info into the database
3) set the content type to an image type
4) binary read and write that image from it's file

3 and 4 are shaky as I haven't actually done that and it may not work, but you could always use css to make the image invisible instead. As this is a method commonly employed by email spammers I also won't supply sample code, hope the outline helps,

-Tarwn

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[pattyrelos]

hi tarwn

can you show me some code please... i really need this very badly.

thanks
pats