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I was going to work on this but wanted to see if anyone else may have done it?
The goal is this.
When people use say Thunderbird to send an email to a contact HOW can I make this mark the CiviCRM record for that contact as being sent an email?
My plan is
Using procmail the user puts in the BCC field track@ourdomain.com this way not all email are tracked since that would be too much.
Then when postfix/procmail see the bcc track@ourdomain.com it runs it through a script which would run a php script that would add this to the CiviCRM based on the contacts email address that matches this email.
Any thoughts?
Al

I posted it on the developers list too.
I guess my approach is a bit more simple since it is dealing with a few procmail php scripts
Here are some more notes
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I have seen this posted in a couple of places.
Just wondering why not just use procmail to run a phpscript based say BCC field.
For example ie BCC is track@mydomain.com then
take the email To: address and find that in the civicrm contact list then update that contact as "Email Sent to them" and use the From address to not who sent it etc.
Or the BCC could be add@mydomain.com then it would add the Contact based on the To: and Name based on the email address area Bob Smith<bob@place.com>
The use the LDAP setup to pull in the contacts into Thunderbird etc.
Just wondering if I am being short sighted here?
Thanks
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