Setting the Tracking Options

Message tracking is done through one or many eMill Redirectors running on public web servers. The eMill Server downloads on a regular basis tracking logs that were collected by different eMill Redirectors.

From the Tools/Options menu, select the Tracking tab:

Tracking redirectors list:

The list window displays all the configured tracking redirectors and their working mode.

Adding a new tracking redirector:

Click on Add. The Redirector properties dialog box appears:

Select a Working Mode. This can be Redirection and Collect if the redirector is active and must be used to track messages, Collect only if the redirector must no longer be used to track message, but was used and still gather tracking data, or Disabled.
Specify the Redirector type. New ASPX and PHP redirectors are version 2. Tracked URLs for version 2 redirectors are compressed and encoded. To allow compatibiliy with older eMill version, redirectors version 2 are able to work like redirectors version 1 on Linux.
Enter the Redirection URL. This is the URL of the web site or virtual folder where the eMill Redirector is running, accessible from the Internet.
Enter the Collect URL. This is the URL of the web site or virtual folder where the eMill Redirector is running, accessible from the eMill server machine. In most cases, this URL is the same as the Redirection URL.
Enter the Domain, User Name and Password fields of the collect user account used to secure the connection. The Domain field is required only for redirector version 1 running on Windows. It can be replaced by a dot or the Windows machine name if the collect user account is not part of a Windows NT domain.
If there is multiple redirectors working in Redirection and Collect mode, you can specify a coma separated list of Domain affinity Patterns (a pattern is a string that can contain ? and * jokers). When a tracked message is rendered, if the sender domain match one of the domain affinity patterns, this redirector will be used in priority.

Modifying a tracking redirector:

Select the redirector to modify and click on Modify. The Redirector properties dialog box appears.
Modify the information from the Redirector Properties dialog box (refer to procedure above).

Set a tracking redirector as default:

Select a redirector working in Redirect and Collect mode and click on Set as Default. This redirector will be used by default to track message URLs when no domain matching affinity is found.

Removing a tracking redirector:

Select a redirector and click on Remove.

Note: if no redirector is working in Redirect and Collect mode, the tracking is assumed to be disabled. Any render of messages with the tracking enabled will fail and return Tracking not configured error.