Does anyone of you know off by hand what mail headers to add in order to get a read receipt and delivery report? This now being when you use the normal PHP mail function. No
What you could also do is embed an img (assuming that you're sending the email as text/html) tag that has in its source the following:
where tracking.php is a file that would be opened when the email is also opened (assuming images are activated) and then you can catch on your side the parameter id and check it against a stored id (database or file).
I am doing this for a newsletter manager to count the number of views.