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Email Template for Party Invitation with [accept] and [decline] button

How can I create a party invitation email template with [accept] and [decline] button so that I can email this e-invitation card via outlook to my customer and they can just click the [accept] or [decline] button and their response will be automatically emailed back to my email.
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You can just create a new message and under options select use voting buttons

Depending on your version of Outlook these options may be in different locations.  Which version are you using?
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I am using outlook 2003, but I prefer to have something like the attached jpg
party-invitation.jpg
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I am cope with the web design part, but does not know how to create the script behind the [accept] and [decline] button so that by clicking either one of them, it will send back the [clicked answer] to the sender's email address. I will actually prefer to be able to assign one email address for clicking [accept] and another email address for clicking [decline].
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Hi, Timhkg.

This is possible, but quite in the way you want.  You can assign a mailto hyperlink to each button, that creates a pre-addressed response indicating their choice.  However, you can't actually send the message.  It'll display on the screen and the user will have to click the Send button.  The format of a mailto link is

mailto:someone@company.com?Subject=Cocktail Party Attendance&Body=Accept
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the invitation email that I received, after clicking the [accept] button, a message window [Thank you] pop up and that is all. I found this way is much better.  [BlueDevilFan] 's solution to me is somehow only entirely automatic although I will have to do so if no other expert can give me better solution. However, I try to check the html source behind this email, it says something likce:

 href="http://www.mallesons.com/email/respond.php?key=1wi-83idis-3y297fa-x7cnhs&r=accept"><b><font
  color=black><span style='color:black;border:solid #009DD9 1.0pt;padding:5.0pt;
  background:white;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none'>Accept</span></font></b></a>
  <a
  href="http://www.mallesons.com/email/respond.php?key=1wi-83idis-3y297fa-x7cnhs&r=decline"><b><font
  color=black><span style='color:black;border:solid #009DD9 1.0pt;padding:5.0pt;

I don't know if this extra info I just found will help the experts here to help me out. thanks a lot in advance
The hyperlink in what you posted is calling a web page and passing it the response.  This is a better solution so long as you don't mind the email being generated by what appears to be a third-party web site.  If you want the response to be generated at the client's computer, then I gave you the link you need.  You can edit the message subject and body as you see fit.
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can you give me a complete script of these 2 different solution so I will try out both way and see if it works for me, thanks in advance
I don't know what you mean by "a complete script".  You cannot put script in an Outlook email.  I gave the text of the hyperlink above.  All you have to do is create the message or open the message template and insert a hyperlink in each of the buttons.
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the hyperlink in which I post  belongs to one of my clients and what I am trying to find is a solution similar to this one. In other words, how could I setup this similar link/service in my own website so that I can use similar link in my emails. I would accept your previous answer as well but would really prefer to find out how to do the same as my client
Ahhhh, now I understand.  That would involve creating a web page that does the emailing for you, or compiles the results for you.  I can post a solution using Microsoft ASP (Active Server Page) technology and a freely available email component called vbSendMail.  Do you have a web server that supports ASP technology?
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we are hosting our website under windows platform, but do not know whether it means it can support asp technology or not, how will I know, I just know our home page start with index.asp
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we do not own the windows web server but share with other companies. it means one windows web server hosted several domain names.
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