Email Bot Assistance

[Jim McCrillis]

I am creating my first web site. My host allows me up to 100 email accounts
and many family members have expressed the desire to have me host their email
(with a family name domain). The web host has a horrible front end to their
web based email.

It is POP and SMTP compatible. It is FrontPage compatible and they actually
recommend using FrontPage for the front end.

I have looked and have not yet found an example of a web-based email page
that I could plagiarize for use on my site.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You would have read the documentation for the email server application the your web host is using to
learn how you would build a front-end.

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Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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Agents Real Estate Listing Network
http://www.NReal.com
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[Jim McCrillis]

Although accurate, it doesn't really answer the problem. Here is the
entirety of their support to this question:

There are many ways to do this. You can use the FrontPage email bot,
ASPMail, ASPEmail, CDONTS, or Jmail. Our servers do not support SendMail,
Blat or WinMail. ASPMail and ASPEmail are by far the most reliable and
recomended methods. FrontPage forms are the easiest if you use Microsoft
FrontPage.

I am using layerblue for my web hosting.

Unfortunately, they aren't "staffed" to provide support in this.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You are confusing the ability to send email from a web page (FP Email Form Handler, ASPMAIL, etc.)
with the ability retrieve email (Outlook Express, Yahoo Email*, MSN Email*, etc.)

* these are web based email application, and you have indicated that you web host also offers this,
which is what you would want to modify, etc.or you will have to use the interface provided by your
web host.

The only way to interface with a web based email application from within a web page is to read the
documentation that is provided with the mail server that the web based email application comes with
to see what server-side scripting language is supported.

You need to ask your web host what email server application they are using and if they have the
documentation available customizing the interface for your account or how to contact the email
server application support group for the documentation, etc.

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Thomas A. Rowe
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
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Agents Real Estate Listing Network
http://www.NReal.com
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[Mike Mueller]

I found that same information on LayerBlue's site-

The answer you posted is to the question "How do I send
email from a web page?", not 'How do I redesign the
user-interface for web access to my email". 2 completely
different things.

What you need is one of 2 things- either editing the hosts
webpage for email access, OR, purchasing an asp(x) package
for doing your mail and working the html from there to give
the desired display




"Jim McCrillis" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
: Although accurate, it doesn't really answer the problem.
Here is the
: entirety of their support to this question:
:
: There are many ways to do this. You can use the FrontPage
email bot,
: ASPMail, ASPEmail, CDONTS, or Jmail. Our servers do not
support SendMail,
: Blat or WinMail. ASPMail and ASPEmail are by far the most
reliable and
: recomended methods. FrontPage forms are the easiest if you
use Microsoft
: FrontPage.
:
: I am using layerblue for my web hosting.
:
: Unfortunately, they aren't "staffed" to provide support in
this.
:
: "Thomas A. Rowe" wrote:
:
: > You would have read the documentation for the email
server application the your web host is using to
: > learn how you would build a front-end.
: >
: > --
: > ==============================================
: > Thomas A. Rowe
: > Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
: > ==============================================
: > Agents Real Estate Listing Network
: > http://www.NReal.com
: > ==============================================
: >
: >
: > "Jim McCrillis" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
: >
: > >I am creating my first web site. My host allows me up
to 100 email accounts
: > > and many family members have expressed the desire to
have me host their email
: > > (with a family name domain). The web host has a
horrible front end to their
: > > web based email.
: > >
: > > It is POP and SMTP compatible. It is FrontPage
compatible and they actually
: > > recommend using FrontPage for the front end.
: > >
: > > I have looked and have not yet found an example of a
web-based email page
: > > that I could plagiarize for use on my site.
: > >
: > > Your help would be greatly appreciated.
: >
: >
: >