RE: [PHP] OT? Verifying mail was received

Richard Lynch <mailto:ceo@l-i-e.com> on Thursday, August 10, 2006 1:14 PM said: > Keep in mind that for many mere mortals, the process of dealing with > your email confirmation goes like this: > > 1. surf to site, put in email > 2. check email, find nothing. > 3. go back to site, use work/home/other email > 4. success! > > So of those 90 customers, at least some of them are activated, only > under a different email, rather than diving into spam filters and all > that. True true. Good point. In this case monitoring my logs will help to know that at least my server has sent the email successfully. > Virtually all the things you COULD do to attempt to monitor the email > getting read or not will drastically INCREASE the odds that the email > will get marked as spam and trashed before they CAN open it. Another good point. > Perhaps it would be better to allow for an optional phone number by > the visitor to be put in, that you can call if they don't activate > their account, to help them out. > > 90 phone calls is a lot of calls, but it probably beats having fewer > activations because your tracking attempts get your emails banned. > > Just a thought. All good ideas! Thanks, Chris.