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Email/Image Tracking

Hi all-
I have very little perl/cgi experience, but I have built a coldfusion application that allows for bulk email marketing and managing, and I was curious as to how to set up a tracking system for the emails being sent through my application. In basic form, I would like to have a log that shows who and how many opened the email, if possible, I would like to go further and have these stats available for display by our clients.

Any help would be great-
thanks-
-m

robysath

I hope this is not spam messaging related! :)

You can send an html message with an image. The url for the image should point to a perl script on your web-site. This perl script can determine all the information about the user when they connect to retrieve the image data.

macromike

ASKER

That is exactly what I want to do, I tried browsing through the cgi resource, but a lot of the scripts there seemed more complex than what I needed. Do you have a sample url I could use to learn from? or an example script?

Thanks-
-m

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macromike

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And then what do I put in for my image link in my email? Thanks for all the help, you are the man! let me know if you need some actionscript help ;-).

robysath

Send your e-mail in html form with

<img src="http://www.yourserver.com/path/to/image.gif">