email form question

Does anyone know if it is possible to create a form on a Windows server that
will automatically insert the users email address in the "To..." box when
hitting reply?

Thanks for any info,

Joann

"JM Okuzono" <digitalzo (AT) adelphia (DOT) net> wrote

Does anyone know if it is possible to create a form on a Windows server that
will automatically insert the users email address in the "To..." box when
hitting reply?

Thanks for any info,

Joann

Dear Joann:

Not really sure what you are referring to but for a form to place in
the email address of the email you would use the mailto tag for the
action of the form. Here is a snippet of code:

<form action="mailto:email (AT) domain (DOT) name" method=post>
<input type=submit value=submit>
</form>

As you cam see the mailto:email (AT) domain (DOT) name part is stating to just
use a mailto tag to send email. The basis is the same as a email link
when it is clicked it opens your email client software on your machine
as the following line : would : <a
href="mailto:email (AT) domain (DOT) name">email (AT) domain (DOT) name</a>. Form mailto
action type of emails are not webmail compatible such as AOL and many
others and another issue is that when the form submit button is
clicked they must first confirm the sending of the message which will
reveal their email address and second their email client would in most
cases have to be open at the time of submitting.

Here is some additional information on the form mailto action :
http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/HTML/Forms/mailto.html

The only suggestion in sending the email directly from the submission
click would be to use a PERL / CGI script or another scripting
language in order to send email. Here are some resources for
information and scripts :

http://www.about.com
http://www.hotscripts.com
http://www.webmonkey.com

If I can be of any further assistance; please feel free to contact me.

Sincerely,
Christopher

This formulation doesn't work with email client (OE, Bat...) if the visitor
uses Opera or Mozilla!

J&D



<newsposts (AT) weremax (DOT) zzn.com> píse v diskusním príspevku > Not really sure
what you are referring to but for a form to place in

the email address of the email you would use the mailto tag for the
action of the form. Here is a snippet of code:

form action="mailto:email (AT) domain (DOT) name" method=post
input type=submit value=submit
/form

As you cam see the mailto:email (AT) domain (DOT) name part is stating to just
use a mailto tag to send email. The basis is the same as a email link
when it is clicked it opens your email client software on your machine
as the following line : would : <a
href="mailto:email (AT) domain (DOT) name">email (AT) domain (DOT) name</a>. Form mailto
action type of emails are not webmail compatible such as AOL and many
others and another issue is that when the form submit button is
clicked they must first confirm the sending of the message which will
reveal their email address and second their email client would in most
cases have to be open at the time of submitting.