Forms

[roadkill]

i am making a website with a form that the user can fill in. i want the form to submit to my email.

i used
form method=post action="mailto:roadkill_xx9@hotmail.com">

simple right? yes and no.... when i click submit i get a microsoft IE popup saying "this form is being submitted using email blah blah continue or cancel" i click continue and i get an outlook express thingy. :splat:

"outlook express is trying to send an email on your behalf"
i press ok and i get the outlook sending email thing with the status bar, then it send the email. :confused:


now this isnt MUCH of an issue, but i would really like it if thecatual website sent it and not tryed to send it using the users email adress. how can i do this?

also, is there and alternative way of doing this? i was thinking that when the user clicks submit it posts all the info on another page that only i can access, but i am lost at doing this too.

:help: help please?

thanks

[COBOLdinosaur]

If you don't want to user the user's email client, then you need to have a script on the server to process the form and generate the email.

Check with whoever is hosting your site, to see if you have server side scripting support and whether they have a standard emailer script (most do).

If you do not have server side support for this, then you will have to rely on whatever mail client the user's have installed on their computer. Some will not have an email client at all, and they will not be able to submit the form.