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    #1

    Netmailer-Read Receipt

    To all:
    Can Netmailer send a return receipt back to the sender when the email is read?

    charlie crimmel
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    #2
    RE: Netmailer-Read Receipt

    Hi Charlie, This is not a feature that I think most people would want - self spamming email - yikes...

    The method typically used for monitoring email reads is to embed a 1x1 pixel image in the email - call it open.gif and put it in its own folder on your server (with the name of the email campaign) now just use webtrends or some other log file reporting script to count the hits on the image.


    Cheers

    Marc
    www.a5solutions.com
    Marc King
    A5solutions

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      #3
      RE: Netmailer-Read Receipt

      Marc:
      I am trying to see if most people are blocking bulk mail.
      I sent out 54 leads with netmailer and got 2 responses in 36 hours.

      I sent out 20 leads with email with return receipts and saw where 5 people opened the email in 5 minutes.

      It would be nice to know who is actually reading the emails for follow-ups

      charlie crimmel

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        RE: Netmailer-Read Receipt

        I do a lot of corporate broadcast email advertising to purchased lists from D&B, DigitalImpact and others. The industry standard response rate even with opt in lead generation is only 3% - 5% so your numbers are not supprising.



        In B2B marketing there is a higher perpensity for an impending event that may generate interest in a business solution offer. So these types of mailings are generally not considered spam if your lists are opt in or otherwise demographically accurate. Mailings typically run 6000 (300 responses),15000 (1800 responses)...

        Many of the top tier CRM systems use the previously mentioned 1x1 pixel image method. There is another method used to programatically track each email with a random hash of numbers "qwaesrw43rw423wrsg" as an ID. This has been employed by MS and others but is losing favor as the long tracking number is directly associated with spam.

        Marc
        www.a5solutions.com
        Marc King
        A5solutions

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          #5
          RE: Netmailer-Read Receipt

          Read receipts are not a standard, and it is up to the email client and end user to decide if they want to send the read receipt back, but....

          You can go to the headers tab and specify the following custom headers:

          Code:
          Disposition-Notification-To: "[email protected]>
X-RCPT-TO: "[email protected]>
          Hope this helps
          Aaron Brown
          Alpha Software Development Team

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            #6
            RE: Netmailer-Read Receipt

            Let's try this again:


            Disposition-Notification-To: "[email protected]>
            X-RCPT-TO: "[email protected]>
            Aaron Brown
            Alpha Software Development Team

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