Comments on: Confirming email delivery http://michaeldundas.com/2010/02/04/confirming-email-delivery/ Precision, Integrity, Communication Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:51:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: JaymeSnyder http://michaeldundas.com/2010/02/04/confirming-email-delivery/comment-page-1/#comment-6276 JaymeSnyder Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:44:37 +0000 http://michaeldundas.com/?p=1501#comment-6276 Hey keep up the interesting content an I'll keep reading it :) The other day I had a co-worker complain he was not getting my emails... but it was his junk email filter in outlook. Every single email in there (and there were many) were false positives marked as spam. I just follow up all my emails with a phone call. Hey keep up the interesting content an I’ll keep reading it :)

The other day I had a co-worker complain he was not getting my emails… but it was his junk email filter in outlook. Every single email in there (and there were many) were false positives marked as spam.

I just follow up all my emails with a phone call.

]]> By: Clear2Go http://michaeldundas.com/2010/02/04/confirming-email-delivery/comment-page-1/#comment-6072 Clear2Go Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:00:00 +0000 http://michaeldundas.com/?p=1501#comment-6072 <a href="#comment-5984" rel="nofollow">@JaymeSnyder </a> Hi Jamie. Nice to hear from you again. Good point and you are correct, this procedure will not ensure that the targeted user received your email. In many cases it does confirm that the email reached the mail exchanger for that business. Especially when it is a medium or large sized company, you can at least reasonably confirm that the email made it to their area of demarcation. This implies that if a particular user isn't receiving emails, it is likely a problem that is more than just them. Not 100%, but it helps. @JaymeSnyder
Hi Jamie. Nice to hear from you again. Good point and you are correct, this procedure will not ensure that the targeted user received your email. In many cases it does confirm that the email reached the mail exchanger for that business. Especially when it is a medium or large sized company, you can at least reasonably confirm that the email made it to their area of demarcation. This implies that if a particular user isn’t receiving emails, it is likely a problem that is more than just them.
Not 100%, but it helps.

]]> By: JaymeSnyder http://michaeldundas.com/2010/02/04/confirming-email-delivery/comment-page-1/#comment-5984 JaymeSnyder Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:10:22 +0000 http://michaeldundas.com/?p=1501#comment-5984 Hey Mike - I found that a lot of commercial anti-spam servers accept all mail on their incomming queue but do not provide feedback in the response on whether or not it actually got relayed. What I did in the past when I wanted to confirm read was embed an external image and parse my web server's logs. I even took it one step further by actually making the external image a server side script (to notify me back). Using mod_rewrite on my server, the regular user just saw a standard looking path to an image in the email's src. The image I returned would be as simple as a "please dont print this" watermark or something like that. Worked better back in the day... but still works usually now. Hey Mike – I found that a lot of commercial anti-spam servers accept all mail on their incomming queue but do not provide feedback in the response on whether or not it actually got relayed.

What I did in the past when I wanted to confirm read was embed an external image and parse my web server’s logs. I even took it one step further by actually making the external image a server side script (to notify me back). Using mod_rewrite on my server, the regular user just saw a standard looking path to an image in the email’s src. The image I returned would be as simple as a “please dont print this” watermark or something like that. Worked better back in the day… but still works usually now.

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