Avoid logging open & click from bots

[louis-l]

Hi there,

Thanks for the awesome package. We are using this to send out newsletter and track the open/click stats. However, I realised recently that whenever an email is sent, some email clients are trying to scan the links, which triggers as an open/click.

It'd be nice to have a config to filter out those actions or at least a way to hook into the flow so other people could implement their own filtering logic as well.

Thanks.

[bretto36]

@louis-l - would you be using the User Agent to determine whether it's a bot or some other mechanism?

[louis-l]

@bretto36 I think so, unless there is better way

[bretto36]

I think a great way to do it might be to have another event and then each person can implement their own technique for skipping the tracking.

Would that work for you? Then you could do IP or user agent or even a timing thing. If you get a click within the first 30 seconds of sending that could indicate it's a spam checker

[louis-l]

@bretto36 That'd be great. Long as we can hook into that and maybe set a flag to skip the tracking.

[bretto36]

@louis-l see the PR #242

[louis-l]

@bretto36

That was quick, tyvm 🙏 Will give it a try soon.