Then build yourself a basic extension with the API key baked in that lets you add emails to the database, and gives you the URL to embed in the email.īut seriously, that's a lot of work, you'll probably write a web application that's somehow vulnerable to something (because everybody would) and gets compromised and abused, and I sincerely doubt you absolutely require read tracking on your business emails. Set up a database with a table for emails and a table for reads, key them to each other using a unique ID (generate a UUID, that's the easiest and safest way to do it), and write a web application that a) returns a 1x1 transparent GIF when accessed using the unique ID you generate per-email, recording every time it's accessed to the reads table b) given the correct username and password, lets you view the contents of the reads table, and c) lets you add emails to the database using an API key. If you really want to implement a solution yourself, you'll probably want to implement it using the clipboard. It's not a very complicated system, but implementing it manually would be a real pain, and honestly the easiest thing to do would probably be to just stop tracking reads (or continue to use gmail for your business you could even use gmail to send emails, but not receive them, if you wanted that awkward solution). This lets you use your web server to track when (and if) the GIF is loaded to identify when (and if) the email was opened. The way these things usually work is by having a 1x1 pixel transparent GIF in the email somewhere, where the URL of the GIF is unique per-email.
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