Frontpage Forms and Email

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darren

Hello Everyone,
Recently, I was given the responsibility of website maintenance of our
internal website here here at the office. The previous webmaster moved on to
bigger and better things. My background is in applications programming and
db administration. This is my first foray into web programming. My
predecessor did have the good sense to choose Frontpage 2002 as his
development software. I had some initial intimidation but after a few days
working with FP I find it to be a very good program to work with.
Maintaining the site is fairly intuitive. My problem is this: My boss would
like to have an electronic version of a suggestion box created on the web
site. Easy enough or so I thought.
Basically, I modified the feedback form template in FP2002. After the form
was modified I went into form properties, and had the form email the results.
I gave an e-mail address to an email account that our sys-admin set up to
use and saved the form to the webserver. When I attempt to run it nothing I
happens.
Here is some information about the server. It is IIS 4.0 running on a
Windows NT 4.0 server box. The extensions are there. SMTP is NOT there.
The sys-admin did not install it. My question is this: Does SMTP need to be
running and cofigured in order for this to work. If not then what else could
be the problem. What else should I check. Any suggestions would be
appreciated.

Thanks
Darren
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

What version of the extensions are installed on the server?

You can see this by opening the site directly in FP, then Tools | Web Settings.

Extension Versions:

3.0... FP98
4.0... FP2000
5.0... FP2002

The extensions must be configure to use a mail server for the specific web site.

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
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FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
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Stefan B Rusynko

But you still need a SMTP server and Email Transport configured under the FP SE
See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=305675

PS
Update your FP 2002 SE to the latest at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnservext02/fpse2002win.asp




| The extension version id for FP2002(5.02.2623). Thanks for the reply..
|
| "Thomas A. Rowe" wrote:
|
| > What version of the extensions are installed on the server?
| >
| > You can see this by opening the site directly in FP, then Tools | Web Settings.
| >
| > Extension Versions:
| >
| > 3.0... FP98
| > 4.0... FP2000
| > 5.0... FP2002
| >
| > The extensions must be configure to use a mail server for the specific web site.
| >
| > --
| > ==============================================
| > Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
| > WEBMASTER Resources(tm)
| >
| > FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
| > ==============================================
| > To assist you in getting the best answers for FrontPage support see:
| > http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
| >
| > | > > Hello Everyone,
| > > Recently, I was given the responsibility of website maintenance of our
| > > internal website here here at the office. The previous webmaster moved on to
| > > bigger and better things. My background is in applications programming and
| > > db administration. This is my first foray into web programming. My
| > > predecessor did have the good sense to choose Frontpage 2002 as his
| > > development software. I had some initial intimidation but after a few days
| > > working with FP I find it to be a very good program to work with.
| > > Maintaining the site is fairly intuitive. My problem is this: My boss would
| > > like to have an electronic version of a suggestion box created on the web
| > > site. Easy enough or so I thought.
| > > Basically, I modified the feedback form template in FP2002. After the form
| > > was modified I went into form properties, and had the form email the results.
| > > I gave an e-mail address to an email account that our sys-admin set up to
| > > use and saved the form to the webserver. When I attempt to run it nothing I
| > > happens.
| > > Here is some information about the server. It is IIS 4.0 running on a
| > > Windows NT 4.0 server box. The extensions are there. SMTP is NOT there.
| > > The sys-admin did not install it. My question is this: Does SMTP need to be
| > > running and cofigured in order for this to work. If not then what else could
| > > be the problem. What else should I check. Any suggestions would be
| > > appreciated.
| > >
| > > Thanks
| > > Darren
| >
| >
| >
 
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