E mail Tracking

[Mir96TA]

Is there any way I can find out; if some body fowarding my E mails ?
Like attached HTML stuff and see where its openeing from ?

 

[Garion]

You are talking about a "mail beacon", frequently used by spammers to validate that messages that they send off are being received by the people that they spam them out to.

You could use a similar technique. Setup a web server somewhere with full logging enabled. Create a HTML e-mail with some links to a page on this server in an e-mail and send it off. Whenever anyone reads the message, you'll know it, since it will get a log file entry for that page.

Note that you need to make a unique HTML page for each e-mail so you can track it. Also, if someone opens the same message more than one time on their computer it will probably show up as a "hit" on your web server. You just have to keep track of IP addresses and try to see what the difference is.

Note that I haven't actually done this, it's just theory, but should be sound.

- G

 

[Mir96TA]

Yea
that is what I was thinking about it
thanks

 

[kamper]

But, a lot of mail clients will not retrieve content that is not included in the message for just this reason. So it's not entirely reliable.