Create and Manage Outlook Voting Options

Microsoft Outlook allows users to add voting buttons (such as Yes, No, Maybe) when composing emails to collect quick responses. Aspose.Email for C++ provides full support for creating, modifying, and reading these voting options programmatically through the FollowUpOptions and FollowUpManager classes.

In this article, you will learn to:

  • Create a message with voting options
  • Read voting options from a MapiMessage
  • Add or remove voting buttons
  • Retrieve vote results
  • Work with existing or new messages

Reading Voting Options from a MAPI Message

Use FollowUpManager::GetOptions to read all follow-up settings, including voting buttons.

The following code sample demonstrates how to extract follow-up options and voting buttons from an Outlook message file using Aspose.Email for C++.

Reading Only Voting Buttons

The following code snippet shows you how to read only voting buttons.

Adding a Voting Button to an Existing Message

The following code sample demonstrates how to add a custom voting option (“Indeed!”) to an existing Outlook message. The modified message is then saved back to a new MSG file.

Deleting Voting Buttons from a Message

Remove a single option or clear all voting buttons.

Reading Vote Results Information

Aspose.Email allows you to extract recipient responses recorded by Outlook.

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