At present, with the exception of mail being read in Hotmail or similar environment, neither the .js nor the .asp method of tracking works when they are in a HTML mailed format when read in Outlook Express.
I basically wish to track the HTML newsletters that i sent out via E-Mail, it would be a great feature if this tracker can track page views in a non-browser environment.
EML tracking
Good day,
Do you know any non-browser environment that can execute scripts written in Javascript ?
How can you expect to track "HTML newsletters" with a script written in VBscript that is normally ran from an ASP page which is normally built "on-the-fly" by IIS?
What do you want to track from these "HTML newsletters" anyway ?
How can you know that your newsletter will ALWAYS be read with OE ? I sincerly doubt that everyone is using OE for the e-mail program, so you would have to deal with another mess like javascript which has different syntax depending of the browser/set of browers being used.
Do yourself a favor, keep your newsletter simple. Just add a link in it to point back to your site. If the people are really interested, then they will click on it and you'll have an entry in MT. If you're newsletter looks messy or looks more like spam, people will simply delete it, period.
I don't know, perhaps I missunderstood the suggestion you posted, but if you expect the client e-mail program to interact with a website, I guess you'll need much more than few lines of code. You'll need something really special and a good share of luck as well! :D
Do you know another tracking package that offers such a feature ?
Regards.
EML tracking
Seems to me that tracking HTML-formatted email is fraught with problems. For example, if I get a "tracked" email, and don't delete it, it will be repeatedly seen every time I open my email program (as long as it remains at the top of my list). I'm not reading it, but it would be parsed an dpresumably tracked (if such a thing were possible).
The only way I can see this working, though not well, is to distribute a link to the newsletter web page, and track that page.
EML tracking
If your newsletter is HTML, you should be able to track an image (Or in this case, a fake image) using the already existing code. For example, here is a similar line I use, when I want to track a page that does not process .js or .asp (It is NOT in an email letter)
Change r=Give_A_Name_You_Understand_Here to something like "r=eMail_Letter_2003_08_11" or whatever. That should work... I can't see why it wouldn't!
Let us know if it works or not.
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