AB Bulk Mailer is the world’s #1 email marketing software. You can track your bulk mailing responses email reads / email open report. From our AB Bulk Mailer you can track the details of how many people have seen your mail and will get a detailed report of how many people are opening or reading your bulk email messages. This report helps you analyze the efficiency of your bulk mail marketing.
If you have your own website you can track opens. We recommend not using tracking as it affects email delivery. Still if you want to use it, please follow below steps:-
Step 1:
Go to the web panel of your website, go to phpMyAdmin, create a mySQL server database, and then create a table in it using below script:-
CREATE TABLE `opentracking` (
`eid` varchar(64) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
`ipaddr` varchar(16) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
`atime` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
Practically you can have any database like Oracle, Sybase etc, but the above fields are required.
Step 2: Go to Message in AB Bulk Mailer and click Edit HTML link in it and type below at the bottom:-
Step 3: Open getPicture.php and view.php, and replace localhost, databaseName, databaseUser, databasePassword by IP of your server/localhost, name of database, database user attached to the database, database password respectively.
After making the changes upload the getPicture.php, view.php and logo99.jpg to your website in say tracking folder.
Assume you uploaded it to http://www.mysite.com/12/tracking
After doing the above one time activity, to view number of opens any time,
Please open below link in your browser:-
http://www.mysite.com/12/tracking/view.php
Replace mysite.com by your website name.
The sample php files can be seen in the tracking tab in Messages.