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form in mail

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:25 am
by ol4pr0
Oke here is what i am trying to accomplish.

I have a bunch of registered users, and instead of asking them a few questions on the website, i would like to send the question form by email have them click the submit button and ofcourse receiving the posted data on the site itself.

Now i dont have troubles putting a form in the mail, however it seems that for example hotmail ( havent checked yahoo ) disables de submit button.

Does anybody have previous experiance in sending a Form by Mail.

I am using xHTML to send out these mails but i dont think its the problem.

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:28 am
by Chris Corbyn
Sending these types of things by email is often blocked in the interest of security.

JS is disabled very often too.

Why not just send a link to the form on your website? Or have a link just incase the form is disabled? :wink:

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 11:35 am
by ol4pr0
Yea i was thinking of the same,

However i think i wont get as many as results as i would when i make it easyer for them.

And @ the current moment i have almost 300 users registered. So as you can see i would like to have the maximum number of results as possible.

These questions are related to the site itself, as in What they think, Is it Easy ect...

Might look like dumb questions and for many of us they are, however there isnt alot of internet experiance here in this country so thats why its very importent for me to get the maximum number of results.

But I asume you have tried something simular and was not able to solve it ?

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 12:17 pm
by Chris Corbyn
I have tried it before yes, my manager wanted me to script something similar (for staff to use). I just scrapped it in the end and used a web page.

If however you say that it works with some email services then I'd just have something like:

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If the form below does not submit, please click <a href=&quote;http://www.yoursite.com/yourscript.html&quote;>here</a> to visit the website.
:)

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 12:56 pm
by ol4pr0
Well i haven't checked yahoo. but i imagen they will do the same.

However i will give it a try with JS. ifnot i guess i will have to use the click on link.