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<blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 1054961" data-attributes="member: 114"><p>The exact mechanism depends a little bit on whether you are running the website on an Apache (or similar) web server or on a microsoft IIS web server.</p><p></p><p>The basic mechanism is to create a page with a FORM on it, and then include several named text input fields. Give the FORM as submit button and set the FORM attribute to tell it where the form data is going to be sent to.</p><p></p><p>If it is on IIS it will probably be sent to an ASP page which will use CDONTS to parcel the stuff up into an email and send it out.</p><p></p><p>If it is on Apache or another type of web server it will probably be sending it to a CGI program which will do the parcelling up and emailing out. Different CGI programs will have different expectations in terms of the data which is available. If you are on this kind of server it is likely that your service provider has some canned CGI scripts available for you to use.</p><p></p><p>If the site can use ASP on IIS (unlikely I'd guess) I can help you directly because I do a lot of that stuff. If you are on a unix server and the web host provider does provide sendmail.cgi or something similar and it doesn't make any sense to you I'd be happy to try and disentangle any instructions.</p><p></p><p>Cheers</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Plane Sailing, post: 1054961, member: 114"] The exact mechanism depends a little bit on whether you are running the website on an Apache (or similar) web server or on a microsoft IIS web server. The basic mechanism is to create a page with a FORM on it, and then include several named text input fields. Give the FORM as submit button and set the FORM attribute to tell it where the form data is going to be sent to. If it is on IIS it will probably be sent to an ASP page which will use CDONTS to parcel the stuff up into an email and send it out. If it is on Apache or another type of web server it will probably be sending it to a CGI program which will do the parcelling up and emailing out. Different CGI programs will have different expectations in terms of the data which is available. If you are on this kind of server it is likely that your service provider has some canned CGI scripts available for you to use. If the site can use ASP on IIS (unlikely I'd guess) I can help you directly because I do a lot of that stuff. If you are on a unix server and the web host provider does provide sendmail.cgi or something similar and it doesn't make any sense to you I'd be happy to try and disentangle any instructions. Cheers [/QUOTE]
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