My Secret

[bricklayer]

Would anyone like to know my secret on how to see if that person who never claims to have gotten your email really did read it? If not then I'm keeping it to myself.

[HackerX]

I'd like you to revel your secret so we can discuss it before I delete this thread.

[bricklayer]

I'd like you to revel your secret so we can discuss it before I delete this thread.

Delete it? Ha, why delete it?

Anyways here's how I do it:

First you need a web page that contains a counter (I use PHP for my counter). I recommend that that's all the page is so it loads faster in the email. Then you make that page load within the email by inserting it as an image source like this:

<img id="whatever" height="1" src="To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts." width="1" border="0">

The image won't even be noticable.

The recipiants email address needs to support HTML which most do.

[athenian200]

The recipiants email address needs to support HTML which most do.

People like you are the reason that I only read e-mails in plain-text format. ;)

If it's in HTML, I can render it in my head (minus images) as I go along. I know how it works.

[HackerX]

HAHA. You mean the same thing spam emailers have been doing for years?

Why would I delete this thread? Because you had no content. "Hey guys, wanna know a secret?" might be a humourous lounge topic, but it doesn't belong in this sub forum.

[Felicia]

Hi there.

If someone wants to know more, this is called a Web bug (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.).

[MostlyHarmless]

Lots of e-mail clients, including gmail, won't show images by default for exactly this reason.