Creating Forms that generate an email msg

[Debbie248]

:confused;
I have coded a form that is supposed to generate an email message with the
"To" field, "Subject" field, and the "Body" filled out. The problem is that
the body of the email doesn't display. Has anyone ran into this problem before?
My environment is as follows: I'm using Dreamweaver MX, Windows XP, and Lotus
Notes 6.5 version.
When I use Windows2000 and Lotus Notes 6.0.1. the code for the form works
fine. Why would it work one time, but not another time.

[Murray *TMM*]

There are two basic ways to process form data -

1. Use mailto:name@domain.com as the action of the form
2. Use a server-side scripting method to a) harvest the form's data, b)
process it in some manner, e.g., enter it into a database, c) formulate and
send an email to one or more email recipients, and d) redirect the visitor
to some ending page

Method 1 is quite simple, and is also the least reliable. It depends both
on your visitor having an email client already installed on their computer -
this eliminates public computers, or home users without email clients
installed (more and more it seems) - and on the installed email client
responding to
the mailto call. It is not possible to use this method *and* send the
visitor to a
thank you page as well.

Method 2 is the preferred method, since it eliminates the problems of method
1, but it means that you have to grapple with server-scripting somehow (ASP,
CF, PHP, perl, etc.).

I suspect you are seeing the problem in method 1 where Notes is not picking
up the mailto: call properly. That means you need to consider method 2.

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"Debbie248" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> :confused;
> I have coded a form that is supposed to generate an email message with the
> "To" field, "Subject" field, and the "Body" filled out. The problem is
> that
> the body of the email doesn't display. Has anyone ran into this problem
> before?
> My environment is as follows: I'm using Dreamweaver MX, Windows XP, and
> Lotus
> Notes 6.5 version.
> When I use Windows2000 and Lotus Notes 6.0.1. the code for the form works
> fine. Why would it work one time, but not another time.
>

[Debbie248]

Thank you for the quick response. I would have to learn PHP, ASP or one of
those and I really just wanted to use the quick and easy email method
though.......... I do greatly appreciate your time. By the way....were you
able to see the code I attached? I'm new to the forums. I created actually to
of these messages in 2 forums. Thanks again for your help!

[Julian Roberts]

Here's some code to send HTML formatted emails from a Windows box.

[url]http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/faq/Email/faq6.shtml[/url]

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