From: Kevin Hopkins Date: 2010-04-22T23:38:15+09:00 Subject: Re: HOW TO Track How Many Recipients Open Your Mail IN RAILS --000e0cd1acf0d1a9980484d42566 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Email tracking can be done with a fair amount of accuracy but it is a pain to implement. The basic theory is that you can embed a 1px by 1px image in your emails that must be downloaded from your server. When the user loads the email, as long as they allow it to request images from external servers, the image will be linked with a unique query string that when the image is requested, is passed via the url to your rails controller. This unique identifier can be matched via your models to the specific user that has that token associated with their account. Once checking with the model, checking out what email user made the request, the controller then rather than rendering html or partial actually returns an image back to the user request and as far as they know, most users wont be able to tell the difference. this is not 100% accurate though and will take time to implement. There arent any plugins or gems that I know of being available that handle this. Maybe I'm wrong and someone else will know though --Kevin This is really the most accurate way but takes alot of jumping through hoops to get it to work. On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Walton Hoops wrote: > On 4/21/2010 10:54 PM, Tony Augustine wrote: > > HOW TO Track How Many Recipients Open Your Mail IN RAILS? > > > > please help me PROVIDE SOLUTIONS AND STEPS OR ELSE ANY PLUGIN > > > Can't be done. There is no way to know for sure who has/hasn't read an > e-mail. > Here are some ways you can attempt it, but none of them work 100% (or > even 50%) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_tracking > > -- Kevin Hopkins, MCP MCTS (c) 540.331.1772 (e) kevin@wearefound.com (w) www.wearefound.com --000e0cd1acf0d1a9980484d42566--