Emailing using "mailto"

[jobbeh]

Hia everyone

right, to get this straight, I am probably to you a COMPLETE NEWB, so nice n
simple please!

I am currently developing a website in dreamweaver MX 2004 and I have an order
form that needs to be submitted by email. I found "mailto" and set about trying
to use it.

First, I put "mailto: [email]myaddy@blah.com[/email]" in the actions area of the form that
contains the order form if you know what I mean.

When I click "submit" on the preview, it brings up some warning boxes but the
progress bar says that the email is sending.
However, no email is recieved.

1: where do I need to put "mailto"? in the button or in the form's actions
area?
2: am i doing anything else wrong?
3: aaaaaaarrrgh.

cheers
joe

[Joe Makowiec]

On Thu 24 Aug 2006 04:31:46p, jobbeh wrote in
macromedia.exchange.extensions.dreamweaver:

> I am currently developing a website in dreamweaver MX 2004 and I have
> an order form that needs to be submitted by email. I found "mailto"
> and set about trying to use it.
>
> First, I put "mailto: [email]myaddy@blah.com[/email]" in the actions area of the form
> that contains the order form if you know what I mean.
>
> When I click "submit" on the preview, it brings up some warning boxes
> but the progress bar says that the email is sending.
> However, no email is recieved.
>
> 1: where do I need to put "mailto"? in the button or in the form's
> actions area?
> 2: am i doing anything else wrong?
> 3: aaaaaaarrrgh.

You're better off in Dreamweaver general discussion. This particular
forum/newsgroup is fairly low volume. I've crossposed it to there.

This might shed some light:

[url]http://apptools.com/rants/mailto.php[/url]

Once you've read that, come back with questions.

[jobbeh]

cheers Joe.
If you mean that my question is now in the general discussion area, I will have a look. However, that website has answered most of my questions.

thanks again!

[Joe Makowiec]

On 25 Aug 2006 in macromedia.exchange.extensions.dreamweaver, jobbeh
wrote:

> If you mean that my question is now in the general discussion area,
> I will have a look.

Exactly. Just for the record:
- This board/newsgroup is for the discussion of extensions, and has 125
posts since June 27.
- The Dreamweaver general discussion board has 16753 posts over the same
time period.

So you are more likely to get your posts answered in the general
discussion area.

> However, that website has answered most of my questions.

Glad it helped. Gary, the guy who wrote it, hangs out here too.

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Joe Makowiec
[url]http://makowiec.net/[/url]
Email: [url]http://makowiec.net/email.php[/url]