Link detection

This works by looking for links in outgoing HTML emails and rewriting those according to configured format, in theory one can use any logger with this. This document however concentrates on using the logger builtin to OpenPsa Directmarketing.

Note: This naturally can only catch those clicks that are actually made on the email (or links copy-pasted from the email), after that clicks on the target page and beyond cannot be seen.

• In component configuration (path/to/directmarketing/config.html) in 'link detector address put:

  http://openpsa.example.com/path/to/directmarketing/logger/redirect/TOKEN/?link=URL
  

Now test this with HTML email with some links in it, in your email reader make note of the link, making sure it is of the format above (in place of TOKEN there is a random string and in place of URL there is encoded form of the original link), click on the link and verify you end up where you should.

NOTE: The some browsers disallow redirecting to other domains, thus the link and OpenPsa should optimally be under same domain.