Find out if your email has been read

<? error_reporting(0); Header("Content-Type: image/jpeg"); //Get IP if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'])) { $ip=$_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']; } elseif (!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'])) { $ip=$_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR']; } else { $ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; } //Time $actual_time = time(); $actual_day = date('Y.m.d', $actual_time); $actual_day_chart = date('d/m/y', $actual_time); $actual_hour = date('H:i:s', $actual_time); //GET Browser $browser = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; //LOG $myFile = "log.txt"; $fh = fopen($myFile, 'a+'); $stringData = $actual_day . ' ' . $actual_hour . ' ' . $ip . ' ' . $browser . ' ' . "\r\n"; fwrite($fh, $stringData); fclose($fh); //Generate Image (Es. dimesion is 1x1) $newimage = ImageCreate(1,1); $grigio = ImageColorAllocate($newimage,255,255,255); ImageJPEG($newimage); ImageDestroy($newimage); ?>
When sending emails, you might want to be able to find out if your email has been read. Here’s a very interesting snippet which logs the IP address which read your email, as well as the actual date and time.

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Dear Andrian, could you explain how this could be to use? I understand in a letter to insert a picture and download it to check when you open the letters?
@Vyacheslav CH You put that script on a page on your webserver and then add the link to that image in your HTML email. [html]<img src=" http://example.com/path/to/script.php" alt="">[/html>.

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