I am pondering the idea of placing a form inside an email. But, will this work properly? I can easily submit the form to a website that will process it, but I'm curious as to the effectiveness of it, and if it will automatically be labeled as spam. Has anyone done this before or have any suggestions about it?
Jestep, This should work properly if done professionally. I remember filling one of such forms which also sent a reply to me within a short time after processing my request. As regards to the effectiveness, this can be considered as SPAM only if you do not follow the Cyber Laws preventing SPAM, such as providing option to unsubscribe/never again, details regarding the sender etc.. (Refer SPAM Laws)
I was afraid of it getting caught by spam filters more than anything. Also, if the person is using a pop-up blocker either in outlook, or in their web-email, I'm not sure how effective it will be. These emails would be surveys going out to current customers, so spamming isn't an issue. Basically, you open up your email in you inbox, and within the email itself is a form. In this case it would be a survey, so the user fills out the form inside their email, and submits it from the same email. More or less, just an interactive email.
I suggest making the form and sending it to some yahoo, gmail, outlook, and other email clients and see how they treat it. Check your junk mail too.
Hi, I was wondering if you had figured this out, because I too want to use a form within an email, but then when I click the submit button within the email form, it flashes up a dialogue box named "Opening Inbox", it then gives me the option to open Firefox or another program. Any ideas? I am starting to think that forms within an email wont work.
I don't really think this is a good idea, since there's e-mail providers where users can disable HTML in e-mails.
Still working on it. I wish there was a easy answer to this, but it seems that the potential for abuse is so high that there is going to be major problems. Imagine people phishing with forms in the email.
I agree, it's a bad idea. Alot of people have HTML disabled so you will miss out getting your message across.