HTML form submission in email body

[ekovnatsky]

I am trying to setup an email signature and would like it to have a search web box and a search button. My footer's code looks like this:

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<form action="http://www.google.com/search" method="get" name="b">
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td nowrap><input type="text" size="20" name="q" style="font-size:11px;"> <input type="submit" name="search" value="Search" style="font-family:arial;font-size:11px;"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

<br>
<br>

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This piece of code works fine if opened in the browser, however when set up as my email message signature, the form doesn't seem to be working.
I suspect it has to do with MS Outlook's security policies, i.e. it totally make sense not to allow form submissions from inside of an email client.
Has any of you guys dealt with this problem in the past, and if yes then is there a solution to this as I feel that it can't be done.

Just in case here's how you set up this html signature in MS Outlook

1. Create the html file and save it to your desktop.
2. In Outlook, go to Tools > Options > Mail Format
3. Click on the "Signatures" button.
4. Click on "New"
5. Give your new signature a name
6. Click "Use this file as a template" and then select the file you saved to your desktop
7. Create a new email message and send it to yourself
8. Try using the search form in the received email message

Thanks in advance for your help

Eugene

[tedster]

We had a discussion about this a few weeks back, and the consensus was that forms in email are not a truly functional thing -- for the reasons you are already pointing to. You can try it, but it will be problematic across different mail clients, operating systems and security software.

The sanest path seems to be linking to a web page where you show the form.