The project I’m considering would have an underlying MTA (mailgun/sendmail/mailchimp) to handle the emails… However, my project would have my “users” emailing other users/friends from their existing gmail/yahoo/etc… To allow me to have a sense of how many/who’s being emailed, I’d ask/have the recruiting users to do a CC/BCC within the email to my MTA email account so I can then track who replies/doesn’t/etc…
Is this the kind of thing that phplist already does with the “bounce” stats.
To your knowledge, is what I described a reasonable solution to kind of understanding how external users engage with the emails.
My use case, is to build a viral marketing kind of app, where users sign up, and then go forth and recruit other users if they choose. (Think airbnb/dropbox/harry’s/etc…) However, while I can track users who sign up… I’d have no clue as to who was recruited, but didn’t reply, unless I somehow know the emails that are sent.
I know what I’m thinking of is a different use from the normal phplist objective. Which is why I’ll be making a number of changes to the logic/tables/etc…
thoughts/comments??