[2005] Sign up form in HTML email?

[dogboydelta]

Is it possible to have a signup form for a service directly inside an HTML email, with textboxes and buttons the user can submit?

How would this be done?

2nd question: is it possible to automatically redirect to a webpage when a user opens an email? (so the signup page can be on a separate page)

[brin351]

You can have a html form in a email and set the form action to post to your website url. You could also load a website page into a div or other tag with javascript. The problem with these approaches is more and more email clients and anti virus programs will block the url's or bin the email.

[mendhak]

Email clients generally do block such actions which is why it's usually best to get the user to go to a page containing the form. You can have some of the details on the form filled out, such as email address and name.