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| Anonymous CowOrker 2004-05-28, 7:15 pm |
| When I get emailed from users using this form, their comments arrive as an attatchment called POSTDATA.ATT rather than in the body of the email.
The strange thing is that it only happens when the user is using Internet Explorer on Windows. If the user is using a different browser on Mac or Linux then it works fine.
<form name="support" action="mailto:example@example.edu" method="post"><textarea cols=50 rows=15 name="comment" wrap="soft"></textarea><br><br><INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Submit (Click only once)"><INPUT TYPE="RESET" VALUE="Reset"></form>
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| Jim Buyens 2004-05-28, 7:15 pm |
| Right.
When you configure a form to send mail using
action="mailto:...", you're actually invoking the Web
visitor's local mail program. Microsoft Outlook, at least,
responds by sending the form's POST information in an
attached file named (you guessed it) POSTDATA.ATT.
There's really nothing you can do about this, except to
start using a server-side mailer program. The FrontPage
Server Extensions can do this for you, or you can write an
ASP or ASP.NET page, or you can use any of many, many
freeware products. Your hosting provider almost certainly
has one or more of these products already installed for
your use. Check their support pages.
One bit advantage of sending mail from the server is that
all the mail arrives in the same format (because the same
program always sends it).
Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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>-----Original Message-----
>When I get emailed from users using this form, their
comments arrive as an attatchment called POSTDATA.ATT
rather than in the body of the email.
>The strange thing is that it only happens when the user
is using Internet Explorer on Windows. If the user is
using a different browser on Mac or Linux then it works
fine.
>
><form name="support" action="mailto:example@example.edu"
method="post"><textarea cols=50 rows=15 name="comment"
wrap="soft">
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| Andrew Murray 2004-05-29, 12:15 pm |
| shouldn't that be action=post and method=mailto......
you have these the other way around
when you think about it, its logical
the ACTION is to POST the data and the METHOD is to MAILTO:
"Anonymous CowOrker" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:471ED6A3-026E-4798-90C7-B3D26C5E8886@microsoft.com...
> When I get emailed from users using this form, their comments arrive as an
attatchment called POSTDATA.ATT rather than in the body of the email.
> The strange thing is that it only happens when the user is using Internet
Explorer on Windows. If the user is using a different browser on Mac or Linux
then it works fine.
>
> <form name="support" action="mailto:example@example.edu"
method="post"><textarea cols=50 rows=15 name="comment"
wrap="soft"></textarea><br><br><INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Submit (Click only
once)"><INPUT TYPE="RESET" VALUE="Reset"></form>
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| No!
Action is the form handler: mailto:addy / .asp page / .pl script /
FPextensions / .....
Method is how the data is sent to the handler - usually either POST or
GET
--
Ron
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
"Andrew Murray" <SPAMadBUSTERmurray@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
news:40b84769$0$8100$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net.au...
> shouldn't that be action=post and method=mailto......
> you have these the other way around
>
> when you think about it, its logical
>
> the ACTION is to POST the data and the METHOD is to MAILTO:
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> "Anonymous CowOrker" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
> news:471ED6A3-026E-4798-90C7-B3D26C5E8886@microsoft.com...
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> attatchment called POSTDATA.ATT rather than in the body of the email.
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> Explorer on Windows. If the user is using a different browser on Mac or
Linux
> then it works fine.
> method="post"><textarea cols=50 rows=15 name="comment"
> wrap="soft"></textarea><br><br><INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Submit (Click
only
> once)"><INPUT TYPE="RESET" VALUE="Reset"></form>
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