Re: undelivery mails
| From: | Jason Wong | Date: | Sat, 21 Feb 2004 01:43:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: undelivery mails | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Saturday 21 February 2004 01:41, Ryan A wrote:
> If you are sending out html mails you can learn a lesson from the low life
> bastard spammers, but in
> your case for a good cause (i hope),
> Write a script so that each email has a unique identifier as spedified in
> the database and from the email
> your script is called...(eg: via a img (src) tag )...after maybe 5 days of
> the person not viewing your email
> take them out of the db...this can be run via a cron.
This will only work if the mail client does not have an option to turn off
external downloads/links when viewing html mail. So the above method will
unsubscribe all your smart users leaving behind the dumb ones!
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Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz
Open Source Software Systems Integrators
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