I found an email campaign tracking service that allows you to record the email address of all the people who open your emails. All you do is insert the following HTML code after the <BODY> tag :
<img height="1" width="1" src="http://www.trackingservice.com/wlog.php?TID=xyz&UID=userID">
When someone opens an email containing the above code the email displays a tiny image unseen by the recipient. The act of opening the email causes the image to display which triggers the service to record a single open for the email address that opened it.
Now the variable part of this code is the string’s end part (userID). The email software I use called Gammadyne Mailer uses the mail merge tag [[-Email-]] for displaying a recipient’s email address. So I replace the userID part with [[-Email-]]. So the code I use is this:
<img height="1" width="1" src="http://www.trackingservice.com/wlog.php?TID=xyz&UID=[[-Email-]]">
So if I sent an email to bob@abc.com with the above code inside the HTML and that person opened the email the tracking would record his email address and register one open to that email.
My question is: how can I use this tracking service but not have the URL from the tracking service displayed in the HTML code? IE I want to use some sort of forwarding script so that I can use a different domain in the HTML other than trackingservice.com eg. http://url-forwarder.com yet still have the email address recorded with trackingservice.com as above. In other words I would have something like this in the email:
<img height="1" width="1" src="http://www.url-forwarder.com/wlog.php?TID=xyz&UID=[[-Email-]]">
when the email is opened by bob@abc.com this URL in the code is activated and forwards to this exact link:
http://www.trackingservice.com/wlog.php ... ob@abc.com
How to do this? Thanks.
