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jules on March 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mailgun Campaign Analytics: taking analytics beyon...

How do you determine "unique opens"? How do you determine the links clicked on? Do you send them to your servers first and then redirect to the actual url?

twakefield on March 2, 2012 [–]

Yes, exactly. You set up a CNAME record that points to us, which is one of the DNS records in your Mailgun control panel.

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