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    Posted: 15 February 2004 at 9:44pm

I know that you are not supposed to dig up old threads. But I would like to refer you to http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=3299&a mp;TPN=1.

In that thread, I mentioned that I didn't want to use links or images. Well... I've decided to use images in emails to track when someone reads the emails. I've tried putting a link behind the image like http://www.anywhere.com/viewemails.asp?ID=4. This web page is supposed to update the database to show that the email has been read. I would like to how I can cause the database to be updated without the user clicking on the image. I would like for the database to be updated as soon the email is opened. What is the code that I should add?

 

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don't just include the link, it has to be wrapped inside an image tag like

<img src="http://www.anywhere.com/viewemails.asp?ID=4">

viewmails.asp has to write the image and update the db. Note that many email and AV programs can prevent scripts from being run from within emails.

An alternative is to to just use the direct link to the image within the email with a query string appended to it like...
<img src=http://www.anywhere.com/myimage.gif?in=xxx>

In this situation, you'd write a script to scan your log files and update the db appropriately.

Neither of these two will return you anything for Outlook 2003 email clients where images are turned off and not downloaded to the client by default unless the user specifically requests it.



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