Are you using ColdFusion to populate these mass emails or is this some type email software? If you are using CF/ASP/JSP.. there are multiple ways to accomplish what you are trying to do. <loop the mails ... dynamic's ID's populated in the email... for security... you can populate a Table with User_ID and createUUID passed into the email associated with User rather than passing Userid...once you have UUID.. u can associate that to a user or email.
These only work... if you are using a Web "Application" Server dynamic emails. "flat HTML file" in the original post didnt make sence. Joe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Chris White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 5:00 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Capturing an e-mail address Take what Dave has suggested and also have an id for link and have all of the links in your newsletter go the same ColdFusion page and you will know the user and the article/link they were after. In that same page write a record transaction table along with the article that they want to see then redirect the user to the correct page on your site. Chris -----Original Message----- From: Dave Carabetta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 4:48 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Capturing an e-mail address >Each email that you send out goes to a person in a DB, right? So each >person has an ID, right? So if you put a link of >http://www.site.com/index.cfm?userid=2577 then the index.cfm can take the >userid and translate it into the person, right? Is that what you want? Well, yes and no. I see what you're saying, but it's not that simple for me. As I said, the e-mail is one HTML template that is sent through our mass e-mailer provider to the list of subscribed addresses. It's essentially the same thing as writing only one e-mail, but CC'ing a boatload of people. Using your approach, we'd have to generate a unique HTML file for each user we send the e-mail to in order to append the proper userID to the links. Remember, I don't have access to CF or any other scripting languages to loop over a record set of userIDs. So what I send has to be generic. For example, to blindly log usage without regard to who it is, a simple <a href="filename.cfm?logMe=1">Filename</a> will do the trick. Then, on my site, I just look for the logMe flag and increment the usage. That's not hard. But now the trick to is say, "log this person's e-mail address(assuming they've clicked the link via their e-mail), somehow figuring out how to identify a user through one static HTML file." That's what I don't quite know how to do. Generating a separate HTML file for each user in the database is too much and unreasonable. That's why I was hoping there might be a smarter way of doing this. Thanks, Dave. ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
