I dug around a little bit, email clients from what I can find don't support javascript, so the method I proposed won't work. Perhaps if someone else in the community has an idea around the rdr issue the led to this, they can jump in. Else - last ditch alternative might be to set up a really simple Quick Base HTML code page, and in that code page, let it run a quick addRecord call in that code, then do a redirect from that code page.
So you'd have a standard quick base code page -
https://yourealm.quickbase.com/db/realm?a=dbpage&pageid=10 which you could embed in the email, user clicks that, stuff runs, then redirects from that page.
I wouldn't call it seamless or the prettiest solution- but it seems like if you need it to run solely through an email, you'll need to hit some kind of intermediary link first, be it Quick base or some alternative
