Tracking email how

how do I know if it was readed? clicked?

[silverbytes]

Hello any suggestions about how to keep track of my sent emails.
I sent some 20 last week and had a few returns. I'd like to know exactly what happened, if they was opened, deleted, received, readed and clicked...

I've put an image being read from my server [myserver.bla......]

what now?

Any tips, plugins, softwares, something?
Thank you!

[rogoff]

You could try using a 3rd party solution like Blue Hornet snipped which does a great job of tracking email. The only downside is that it's not free.

[edited by: DaveAtIFG at 7:46 pm (utc) on April 20, 2004]
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[mack]

you can record clicks from an email by pointing them to an entry page made especialy for the campaine. That way you know all traffic to that page came from clicking an email link.

Mack.

[Kwix]

You could also append all the links in the email with a query string identifier.

http://example.com/promopage.html?newsletter=Apr04

Then go through your log files looking for that query string.

[drbrain]

Encode the MessageId of the email in the link. This ties an email address to a user directly.