smitty77 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I would like to know if there is a way to create an email from perl on a Solaris box that will embed the voting buttons that can be created in a Microsoft Outlook email. I know this is a remote possibility, but it's something I could really use and if it can be done any possible way from Unix, it would be very helpful. All emails created from Unix will be read in Outlook on the recipient's end.

Thank you,
Dave Smith
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Re: Creating Outlook Voting buttons in an email
by grantm (Parson) on Oct 31, 2002 at 22:38 UTC

    Coincidentally, a workmate told me yesterday that the Outlook voting buttons are implemented using headers. So if you open an email with buttons in outlook and View|Options to see the headers, you might get a clue from that. I haven't verified it myself.

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      Thanks for the idea, but when I just tried that, I don't see anything in the header about the buttons. In fact, I can't see anything about the header at all - it's blank. I can see email headers when there's no voting buttons, but when there are buttons, the header is empty. That's bizarre. Oh well. Thanks anyway.
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        I just tried sending a message with a yes/no button on it to a POP account. It ended up with these headers:

        X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0
content-class: urn:content-classes:message
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
        charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Subject: Test message
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 12:04:29 +1300
Message-ID: <5FA042F680739D44951B00FED8BE1A7D05DF0C@exchange.server.FQ
+DN.here>
X-MS-Has-Attach: 
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: 
Thread-Topic: Test message
Thread-Index: AcKBMk8DSPh8eUOZSCenOuSDeutYJA==

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        TNEF is apparently Transport Neutral Encoding Format and the X-MS- prefix implies Microsoft proprietary extensions, but I can't see anything in these headers that shouts out 'Yes/No Voting Button'. :-(

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