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First off this is not going to be spam and will be delivered to 20-25 people.
What it is: a short little description with an area for how many seats they would need, the best time for them, the best day and maybe their contact info.
The goal is to make the above areas fields that the reciever could fill out and then hit a submit button and the info would come to us.
My suggestion was for me just to create a web page with this form and link to it.
Another solution would be to just have the person reply and fill in the areas.
The preferred way would be to have the email actually function as a form. The downside I see to this is 1)large file size, 2) email program must be able to view html, 3) the form to email script I use has allow permissions to only allow certain domains access to the form.
Not really sure where to start. I did some research and saw some expensive software that would make the emails. I would prefer to keep it in house and do it on the cheap. Any suggestions or info would be great.
Thank you in advance.
First off, think about who's going to be filling in this form, and how they were contacted.
Are they expecting an email with this form? If so, just an email with a [question] : [Please type response here] in plain text would probably do. If they are interested in the service, they'll take the time to do it.
Otherwise, send them an nice email with the link to a webpage that contains a form that sends you the email. (Via such things as formmail.pl or a webbased contact form).
A simple link in an email to a web form would do. If you only want a certain amount of people to use the form i.e. no outsiders, you could always stick a password on the HTML page, and provide the password along with the URL to the form in the email.
Then, once everyone has filled in the form you can simply change the password.
This would not only make it reasonably secure, it would also give you a method to use everytime you need people to fill in one of your forms.
hope this helps
Webboy
The next one I will do with a link to a webpage and they can complete it there and submit it.
