What I've done is to create a separate transparent image for every person in the
database. I did this with a simple three line loop with CFFILE in Cold Fusion.
After that, I had 1.gif, 2.gif, 3.gif and so on.
Then, I put a field in the email based on the ID number coming from the
database, like
<img src="http:myserver/#emailID#.gif">
With this method, you can tell WHO opened the mail and at what time.
tom
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Subject: RE: HTML Email Tracking
> Your call should work. In thefile.cfm you probably want to include a
> CFLOCATION to an actual image though, so the browser won't show a broken
> graphic.
>
> <!-- thefile.cfm -->
> <cfquery .... >
> <cflocation url="someimage.gif">
>
> --Doug
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Daniels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 9:29 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: HTML Email Tracking
>
>
> I feel like I've seen this done before, but I can't for the life of me
> figure out how to get it to work.
>
> What I have is a marketing email that is going out HTML formatted. I want to
> include in it a reference to an image file. I've heard that some people have
> successfully referenced a CFM file in the src of the image that would allow
> you to have some code executed each time the image was grabbed. Then you use
> cfcontent maybe to push out an actual image.
>
> Anyone got some code that shows how this is actually done? I've tried just:
>
> <img src="thefile.cfm" height=1 width=1 border=0>
>
> The code in thefile.cfm doesn't get run though. All it does by the way is
> increment a counter in a db table.
>
> TIA
>
> - Sean
>
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