Email to visitor email address off an FP Form

[Jim L]

I have read variations of this question, but no one has
really touched on it. I have a fill-in form that has
various fields and finally an email address field. I want
to be able to autorespond to that email address with a
canned response as soon as that form is submitted. I
already have that form data emailed to me after using
form properties -->send to email address.

I have tried Options-->email results--->reply to line
where I enter the name of the email field, with no
results. What do I need to do correctly? Thanks for your
patience and expertise. Jim Leon

 

[Mike Mueller]

Jim,
The FP form handler can not do it. I would not recommend
using the FP form handler for email anyways- the spambots
will harvest the email addresses that are coded into the
form

I recommend using a custom script, such as an asp page
utlizing CDO, which can send email to however many people
you want.

Mike


Jim L wrote:
: I have read variations of this question, but no one has
: really touched on it. I have a fill-in form that has
: various fields and finally an email address field. I want
: to be able to autorespond to that email address with a
: canned response as soon as that form is submitted. I
: already have that form data emailed to me after using
: form properties -->send to email address.
:
: I have tried Options-->email results--->reply to line
: where I enter the name of the email field, with no
: results. What do I need to do correctly? Thanks for your
: patience and expertise. Jim Leon

 

[Jim L]

Mike,

I am really quite new, so I don't know whan an asp page
using CDO is, but If you can point me in the right
direction, I'll do the research.

Can I use FP for the other pages of my web, and change
the only the form pages as you suggest?

Would "spam stopper" mentioned earlier in this newsgroup
suffice? IT's supposed to prevent spammers from mining
email addresses.

Jim Leon

 

[Ronx]

You need to check what server and server side programming your host will
support, if any. If on a Windows server and they support CDOSYS then see
http://www.interlacken.com/winnt/tips/tipshow.aspx?tip=46
which explains how to use CDO.

If a Unix server look for PHP and/or Perl formmail scripts - your host must
support the language, and may have one already.

Also check for any Autoresponders your host may supply with the hosting
package.

FrontPage can be used for all the pages in the web, though using it with PHP
*may* be problematic, as will using Perl and PHP pages with the FrontPage
navigation components.

Spamstopper will not stop mining of email addresses hardcoded in any Forms,
since these have to be in plain text for the form handler to use, whether
it's FPextensions, ASP or whatever. It is best to code the email address in
the form handler script itself. Addresses typed into form fields by the
user are safe.