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Does Apple Mail support voting buttons (in emails)?

MacBook Air, iOS 9.2.1

Posted on Feb 24, 2016 6:16 AM

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Feb 24, 2016 8:11 AM in response to husker66

Most mail clients do not have explicit support for "voting" button extensions, though it's trivially easy to embed links which can capture that and other data in HTML-format mail messages. This is how the spammers confirm the email address is valid and (even better, it's worth more when selling to other spammers!) that the user read and clicked on the spam.


Most (legitimate) folks will use one of the write-your-own quiz or survey or polling web sites for this purpose, if it's legitimate. SurveyMonkey is an example, and there are others. More than a few of the available web content management systems — Drupal, WordPress, others — that folks host their web sites with support posting polls, too.

Feb 24, 2016 7:52 AM in response to BobTheFisherman

In the email I received, the sender asked the recipients to use the "voting button" to indicate whether or not we agreed with her proposal.


I have used voting buttons in Outlook emails, and the button appears at the top of the email. However, in the email I received this morning (via Apple Mail), there was no voting button. I am assuming that Apple Mail does not have the "voting button" functionality. Is my assumption correct?

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