How do I ensure online email form is going to my mailbox?

Z

zephyr

It's in Form Properties...Email, and you don't have an address in there. It will only send to your domain.


thank you...I have found out that even though I can put an email
address in this field, the form won't work until I edit some HTML (I
don't want to screw up the code on my site *practicing*).

I contacted my ISP (Earthlink) and obtained the correct mailto script
that needs to be associated with my form
(http://help.earthlink.net/websupport/startersite/mailto.html) . The
tech was able to see the errors on my page and that the code is
pointing to bins that aren't there, etc.. So here's my current form
html, followed by earthlink's script. Is it possible to get help
updating my form to work with Earthlink's FP server extensions via
their code?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ current FP script~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

<form method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--"
onSubmit="location.href='_derived/nortbots.htm';return false;"
webbot-onSubmit>
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" u-file="_private/inforeq.htm"
s-format="HTML/DL" s-label-fields="TRUE" b-reverse-chronology="FALSE"
s-email-format="TEXT/PRE" s-email-address="[email protected]"
b-email-label-fields="TRUE" s-date-format="%d %b %Y"
s-time-format="%H:%M:%S" s-builtin-fields="REMOTE_NAME Date Time" -->


<input type="HIDDEN" name="ProductOrService" value="pcGuru Service
3">

<h3>Information Request Form</h3>

<p> Select the items
that apply, and then let us know how to contact you.</p>
<p>
<input type="CHECKBOX" name="SendServiceLiterature"
checked value="ON"> Send service literature<br>
<input type="CHECKBOX" name="SendCompanyLiterature" value="ON">
Send
company literature<br>
<input type="CHECKBOX" name="SalesContactRequested" value="ON">
Have a
salesperson contact me<br>
</p>


<table>
<tr><td align="right"><em>Name</em></td><td><input type="TEXT"
name="Name" value size="35"></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right"><em>Title</em></td><td><input type="TEXT"
name="Title" value size="35"></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right"><em>Company</em></td><td><input type="TEXT"
name="Company" value size="35"></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right"><em>Address</em></td><td><textarea
name="Address" rows="5" cols="35"></textarea></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right"><em>E-mail</em></td><td><input type="TEXT"
name="Email" value size="35"></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right"><em>Phone</em></td><td><input type="TEXT"
name="Phone" value size="35"></td></tr>
</table>
<p><input type="SUBMIT" value="Submit Request"> <input
type="RESET" value="Reset Form"> </p>
</form>

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Earthlink mailto script~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

<!-- begin sample html page -->
<html>

<head>
<title>Sample Form</title>
</head>

<body>

<h1>Sample Form</h1>

<hr>

<form method="post" action="http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/mailto">
<input type="hidden" name="RECIPIENT" value="[email protected]">
<input type="hidden" name="THANKURL"
value="http://www.domain.com/thankyou.html">
<p>
<b>Name:</b><input type="text" name="name" size="30"><br>
<b>Email:</b><input type="text" name="email" size="30"><p>
<b>Comments:</b><br>
<textarea name="comments" rows="10" cols="50"></textarea>
<p>
<input type="submit" value="Send">
<input type="reset" value="Clear">
</form>
<p>

<hr>

</body>

</html>

<!-- end sample html page -->
 
Z

zephyr

re: my form at bottom of page: http://www.pcgurudenver.com/serv03.htm

I found another Earthlink page *specific* to FP mailto forms and made
the adjustments.

http://help.earthlink.net/websupport/startersite/fp-mailto.html

I followed the examples but it's not working and bombs out at, I
believe, here:

onSubmit="location.href='_derived/nortbots.htm';return false;"
webbot-onSubmit> &nbsp;<h3>Information Request Form</h3>

I don't know what I should delete to make it go to my "Thank You" page

The code above is from FP's wizard for creating my site.

thank you very much...
 
Z

zephyr

re: my form at bottom of page: http://www.pcgurudenver.com/serv03.htm

I found another Earthlink page *specific* to FP mailto forms and made
the adjustments.

http://help.earthlink.net/websupport/startersite/fp-mailto.html

I followed the examples but it's not working and bombs out at, I
believe, here:

onSubmit="location.href='_derived/nortbots.htm';return false;"
webbot-onSubmit> &nbsp;<h3>Information Request Form</h3>

I don't know what I should delete to make it go to my "Thank You" page

The code above is from FP's wizard for creating my site.

thank you very much...

I got it working by removing some FP wizard-added script.
Specifically:

onSubmit="location.href='_derived/nortbots.htm';return false;"

but I left:

webbot-onSubmit> &nbsp;<h3>Information Request Form</h3>

Anyone knows what this script-bit of code does?
 
A

Andrew Murray

it doesn't *ask* you - you have to put your email in the field in the Form
Properties dialogue yourself.
 
M

MYA

Try reading the following articles from MS KB
305675 and 319306
I am assuming you are running your own IIS sever. If you are not these
articles will guide and then you can ask your ISP to make the specific
changes at their end. Let me know if this works

Cheers
 
Z

zephyr

Try reading the following articles from MS KB
305675 and 319306
I am assuming you are running your own IIS sever. If you are not these
articles will guide and then you can ask your ISP to make the specific
changes at their end. Let me know if this works

Cheers
Thanks all. Working fine now
 
J

JMitchell

Please can you tell me where I would find MS KB and the related articles? My
customer's Frontpage Form works find when sending the information to an html
page but will not send the information to an e-mail address. Yes, I have
clicked the right button, etc. Also looked at the form code and it seems
correct. What's going wrong? The form stopped sending suddenly in August for
no reason and my ISP tells me to use formmail, no answer at all.
Thanks,
Jane.
 
S

Steve Easton

Is the email being sent to an address related to the domain name??
For example, if the web site is www.thewebsite.com the email needs to go to [email protected]


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T

Thomas A. Rowe

If your host requires you to use formmail, then you need to talk with your host as the process would
no longer be using the FP extensions to process the emails.

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