Form not sending the way created - outlook

I am trying to create a survey template in Outlook for the first time. So I created a very basic template which has one question and three radio buttons to choose from. When I use Tools\Forms\Design a Form it looks fine however, when I try and test it by going to File\New\Choose Form and emailing myself a copy I receive my standard message page (nothing like the form I just created!). Can anyone explain what I am doing incorrectly? Thanks!

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Common email clients share a propensity to distrust forms in email
messages. But they differed greatly in how they handled the intruding
forms.
Because of this I suggest to not use forms in emails as you might not get the expected result.

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Weird customization behaviour for e-mail entity in MS Dynamics CRM

We are using Dynamics CRM 2016 on-premise.
We want to send an e-mail from a workflow.
We got a lot of experience creating workflows, so this is probably not a newbie question.
We have a weird behaviour when we try to send an e-mail.
We tried the "Send E-Mail task" and also "Create entity record" of type "E-Mail". Both show the same behaviour.
I am attaching two screenshots. In that example we are attaching the workflow to a custom entity "Anlagenteil" but the error is the same for all entities we tried. When we try to configure the e-mail, it is not possible to set any values. So, on the second screenshot, the list below "Anlagenteil" is always empty.
This is also true when we try to set the value of the subject/topic which is just text.
(We know that we can't add text to the To/CC fields)
The same workflows works just fine when we try "phonecall" or some other activity entity.
The misbehaviour is the same for all users and on different computers.
There seems to be something broken with the e-mail entity in our environment and we have no idea where we could start looking for a fix. Any ideas?
Update: We found out that this is a rendering issue. It doesn't work in Firefox or Edge but it does work in Internet Explorer.
Have you tried creating a new Form for the Email entity and using that one in the Workflow Designer? We've experienced problems like this in the past due to Form Customizations and it was solved by using another form.
Keep in mind that the Workflow Designer uses the Sticky Forms, so in order to change the form used in the Workflow Designer, just switch forms in the UI.

Sending simple email from static page

I'm new to DocPad. I really like the idea of static page generation and had this in mind for some time, but great that there's already a mature project out there!
However, while I get a rough picture of how DocPad works, what would you recommend be the best way of creating a simple Contact Me page, that would email the input text to a specific address?
There is still requirement for server side code for this. How I see doing it right now, is having a html form doing a POST to nodejs server that will handle sending the email.
Is that a correct DocPad way of doing it, or I'm missing something?
Check out the contactform plugin :)

Email address locked in field like box?

So I dont know what it is called but I am looking for a way to box in the user entered email addresses like they do in hotmail, where any valid email is boxed into that rectangle locked email once it is validated in real time? Also in hotmail they allow you to remove it by clicking the X and edit it by clicking the edit icon. I want to add more features also appart from edit and delete, so I guess I use AJAX for this? I dont know the term for this so not sure how to search for sample code and design patters for this. Any idea on what this is called or sample links with different design patterns?
You mean a facebook-like autocompletion? It uses AJAX (Javascript libraries: Prototype / Scriptacoulous).
Maybe this library is not perfectly suited to your use case, but you definitely need Javascript to do it as soon as the user enters it, but not necessarily AJAX - via javascript you can create input-hidden fields that will get submitted with the rest of the form.

How do I send an email from my webpage?

I am not a web developer but I do have a lot of programming experience in C# and Windows forms programming. On our company webpage my boss wants me to put in a textbox where visitors can submit a comment and press a submit button and that comment will be sent to an email address. Right now, our website uses just plain old html, no php or javascript or anything like that. I am wondering what is the simplest way to accomplish what I need? Can someone point me in the right direction? The website is hosted on an Apache server so I won't be able to use aspx.
The simplest method depends heavily on what is available. If PHP is supported, use it.
Here's a simple example (I wouldn't focus too much on their HTML -- which is a bit shoddy) but the PHP at the bottom to give you an idea on how to pull the <form> in and send the email.
If you don't have PHP and don't want to install it, you can do this without any server-side code and outsource the problem. Bravenet (a name that will be familiar with any old-school webdeveloper) have a free hosted form solution that lets you post your forms to their server and they email you the result.
Not amazingly professional, but takes about 10 seconds to implement.
The simplest solution would be have the form action as "mailto:email#address.com"
However, this has the downside of the email address being sent to being exposed to spam bots, along with the clients mail application having to load to send the email which can be confusing and slow.
Sending emails in PHP is common, and there are thousands of articles out there on how to do it, here's one
In this case the most simple way is to install PHP to your apache to use the mail()-function.
Of couse you could use tomcat additional to apache, but the configuaration is much more time-eating.
If you don't want to use any sort of scripting technology, then the form mailto might be your only option. You can just make the action of your HTML form mailto:youraddress and the form post will be mailed directly.
I would highly recommend looking into some sort of scripting technology though to do this in a more reliable way....PHP looks like a good fit in your environment.

Access and display web sourced data as 'messages' in Outlook

I have data I provide on an http connection that's essentially message information.
I'd like to create an AddOn for Outlook that will consume/interface with that http service as if it were a mail source and display sender, recipient, subject, date etc and then be able to download the actual message and display it.
I envision this service being accessed either via a folder in the left-hand panel. (Uber feature would be if I could drag a message out of this service into the inbox!)
Unfortunately, I don't normally write code on the MS Stack -- I'm a linux guy. So I'm looking for either a follow-the-dots tutorial or an example of something similar. Failing that, I'll hire someone to write this so would love to know the specific skillsets I should be looking for when I contract someone to write it.
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I have considered changing the web service (or at least creating a middle-man) that spoke IMAP, but only implemented a sub-set of commands (eg, there's no delete or create-folder or move)
One problem with that is that retrieving the actual message needs to be a different opperation (one that has a quota cost to the end user) so I can't just show the message. An option would be to show a "retrieve" button rather than the actual message (I found a great resource here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd542625.aspx for doing something like that) and then having that button do the retrieve and then reload itself. Maybe.
As Pekka says this could turn into a big project .. your description is pretty general and as you know the devil is in the detail ! but there are a number of options ..
you may be able to use Folder.WebViewURL Property of a folder that you have created in outlook and show your app via a web app (you can build that on any tech stack you like)
ok drag and drop may become a little tricky to do.
Outlook forms could also be used. A form can call out to your web service and display what you want. There is some info about form on SO but http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?ID=35 is the best place.
Subclassing .. you can then create your own tree under the outlook tree and display whatever you want in the right hand pane such as grids forms etc. these can interact with the normal outlook folders and you can do your drag and drop though you woudl have to create Outlook Items to display them in the inbox. There is a tutorial on the technique http://www.codeproject.com/KB/office/additional_panel_Outlook.aspx though not doing exactly what you want but the technique is sound.
Next up build your own MAPI Message Store Provider which is probally the hardest thing to do on the list.http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc842153.aspx
As I said your question is no functional spec and there are always many ways to skin the cat but 2 or 3 are probaly where you shoudl look at unless it simple enough just a display a web app.
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