in reply to Creating Outlook Voting buttons in an email

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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Re: Re: Creating Outlook Voting buttons in an email
by smitty77 (Initiate) on Oct 31, 2002 at 22:51 UTC
    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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        What a drag. Thank you very much for checking that out. I would be content with simply adding a couple of HTML style buttons to the email message (it's an HTML email message anyway) that would result in sending separate emails once you click on either one. Time for a Google search... Thanks again!
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