form submission buttons

form within a form

[benihana]

I have a mailing list where most people have opted to recieve HTML emails. I would like to introduce the option of subscribing/unsubscribing or changing to plain text within the actual email itself, and therefore need to put a text field and submit button in the HTML. Unfortunately my mailing list manager previews any messages due to be sent, and itself has a 'submit' button, so when I setup a mail with the form in, the submit button to send the message is overridden by the submit button within the message, and i cannot send.

Any ideas on how I could get this to work?

thanks

<edit> for clarity of question </edit>

[edited by: benihana at 11:05 am (utc) on May 19, 2003]

[BlobFisk]

How about a link to a page on your site where users can remove their details from your list?

[benihana]

yes thats the current situation, however I want to make it as easy as possible for people to add or remove themselves - particuarily for people who get forwarded the newsletter from their colleagues. Im hoping to make it a one-click no brainer.

[korkus2000]

I don't understand the manager over writing. Have you tried using a regular button?

[benihana]

sorted it now - because the message had <form> </form> tags in, the browser was closing the form before it got to the 'press to send mail' button, making that button redundant. just missing the closing form tag in the mail message keeps the button functioning and lets me send. - not really best practice but it seems to do the trick.
:)