| Bonnie in Sacramento 2004-08-07, 7:15 pm |
| dprulhiere wrote:
> I have been poking around abit and found that there is many ways to send the
> contents of a form via email. I tried .. ACTION="mailto:myemailaddress" and
> this works, um shall i say ok. the data get to me but unless i a mistaken,
> there is a lot of problems with this method.
> 1. you have to have an email client on the computer that is trying to complete
> the form.
> 2. if you don't click the send mail button on your email client, the email
> wont get sent. which could result in a client thinking they were neglected
> because they got no immediate response.
> 3.this warning comes out and says that this form is being sent by email ...
> could be virus, do you want to continue? (this is if the email client is
> Outlook, not sure of the others) I have clients that are so afraid of
> viruses(virisi??) that they would cancel just to make sure.
>
> There may be other problems but this is enough for me to know there must be
> other ways.
> The only other ways I have seen is using CDONTS or a CGI...I am not really
> sure how to do this.
>
> Could someone point me in the right direction on how to send form contents in
> an email?
>
> thank you
>
> David
>
What server-side solutions (PHP, cgi, ASP, etc.) does your host support?
Is it a Linux or Windows host?
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Bonnie in Sacramento
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