How to Check if a mail was received with php

Question

i\'m new in php. I want to send an email to someone and afterwards i need to check if this mail could be received. How do i do that? Hope you guys understand my problem ;).

Answer 1

There is a perfect solution, in terms of knowing the eMail has been read.

The bad part is that the body of the eMail must be stored on web server.

The trick: -Send an eMail just just a small text and a URL, so the user must go to that URL to read de content of the eMail.

In other words... on the eMail there is nothing about what you want to send, there is only a link to a unique page you create before sending such eMail.

So to read the content the user must open a web browser and go to such URL.

The trick is to put a little of such text on eMail... something like: bla, bla, bla ... press here to read more.

The concept: Online body, offline URL to access such body.

That way you can be sure of this: if URL has been read, the eMail has been read.

The bad part is that the info you want to send is not on the eMail, must be on a unique webpage.

So you must control no robot can go to such URL... for example with URL like: https://server/private/?eMail_Body=user

Hope this idea can help someone.