Html email survey. How to do it.

[petermeachem]

I want send a survey via html email. Ideally I want radio buttons, check boxes, text boxes. I tried using a Submit button. This asked various strange questions that would probably put a user off and sent me back an attachment which mentioned the controls but didn't include the stuff typed in. I also tried just sending a check box and edit box. If the receiving end hits Reply, they can enter data which does come back in a sensible form but the data entry is awkward. As soon as you click on one of the controls to enter data, you get sizing handles and a cross cursor.

What is the best way I can do this. I don't want to do it via a web site as I don't think people would bother whereas they may not mind clicking a few buttons on an email.

Thanks in advance.
Peter Meachem
peter @ accuflight.com

 

[tviman]

There's no reason why you can't do what you want with a standard HTML page. You have to specify that your email/form/html page is in multi-part mime format. Easiest way to do this is to use a bulk-email manager like Group Mail. It does it for you. You just supply the HTML page and it does the rest.

A word of caution - if you use any images, external js files, or external style sheet files, you'll have to change their location in your html file to reflect the full URL: <SCRIPT SRC=&quot;

http://www.yoursite.com/your.js&quot;

TYPE=&quot;text/javascript&quot;></SCRIPT>. Same goes for the 'ACTION' part of your form: <FORM METHOD=&quot;post&quot; ACTION=&quot;

http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/yourscript.cgi&quot;>

If you need more info, let me know.

There's always a better way...

 

[petermeachem]

I'm using Group Mail. Reason being I dislike getting html email that has picture links to a web site. A lot of people use modems and it is annoying if the thing dials up whenever you look at the email. Some of us pay for phone calls. What I can't figure out is if I can use the form elements like check boxes purely on the email without any reference to a web site so that the recipient can easily fill in the survey and reply the mail. Peter Meachem
peter @ accuflight.com

 

[petermeachem]

I'm not getting anywhere with this. I've looked very hard and cannot find out how to do it, or even if it is possible.

Can anyone help? Peter Meachem
peter @ accuflight.com