Tuesday 24 November 2009

PHP Email Read Receipt

Left Quote Anyone who's ever used Microsoft Outlook will be familiar with the Delivery Receipt and Read Receipt options, but how can we implement them with PHP? Sadly, the delivery receipt is an Exchange feature, but a read receipt we can do.

<?php



$headers = "From: Your Name<test@test.com>\n";

$headers.= "Disposition-Notification-To:<test@test.com>\n";



$body ="Body Text";



mail("your@email.com", "Read Receipt Test", $body, $headers);



?>

For privacy reasons, RFC 3798 defines the disposition notification as 'optional' which means that in most email clients the user will get the option of sending the reply or not.

It's not perfect, but that's how to get a read receipt using PHP Right Quote

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