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Question: Newsletter Read Confirmation

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phiberoptik:
Sorry, if this isn't the right forum to post in.

I currently have a SMF website with over 17,000 registered members. I often send out newsletters about new additions to our network, but unfortunately I have no clue how many people are actually reading what I'm sending out. There's no way to confirm if anyone has read what I sent out. For all I know it, it could only be 250, and the rest are inactive. Is there any way to do Email Read Confirmation on a newsletter? IE: When they open the email to read what is in it, it sends an email back saying "Blah@blah has read your email." or something similar. Just so I know which percentage of people are active.

Thanks!

Chas Large:
There is nothing built into SMF to measure that recipients have received/opened/read your mail/newsletters.

There really is only one way, set up a measuring landing page for a link within the newsletter and monitor it with a hit counter or Google Analytics or similar.

So if you put something like; Click here to read more and the "Click here" is a hyperlink to a stand alone web page or forum topic and then set a goal in Google Analytics or some other web counter to measure the number of clicks/visits that page gets. Reads of a topic is not a great measure as other members could just read it anyway.

phiberoptik:
Well that's definitely a good workaround, but they might just not read it, they might delete it or open it then delete it. Basically I want to find out how many people are actually reading what I send out, versus the ones who ragequit from my network and just spam filter the email, or flat out delete it without reading it. I'm trying to see if I can get a delivery confirmation.

vbgamer45:
The way to do it is with a tracking pixel inside an email that goes out. But that depends on the email client if they display images or not.

Colin:

--- Quote from: vbgamer45 on August 12, 2012, 02:24:58 PM ---The way to do it is with a tracking pixel inside an email that goes out. But that depends on the email client if they display images or not.

--- End quote ---
To go a bit more in depth --

You include a transparent image inside the email. The IMG is hosted on your server. When the client goes to open the email the email client must make a request to the server to download the image. That is where you can track the amount of times the image is downloaded from your server which is thus the amount of times the email was opened.

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