How to set up a form to post results by e-mail in FrontPage 98 (194088)

SUMMARY

This article describes how to set up a Microsoft FrontPage form to submit form results as an e-mail attachment instead of saving the results in a file.

Notes

Some browsers may not support the mailto Uniform Resource Locator (URL).
Microsoft Internet Explorer, versions 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 do not support the inclusion of form output to a mailto URL.
Posting results by e-mail works only if the client has a Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) compliant e-mail system.

MORE INFORMATION

To set up a form to submit results as an e-mail attachment by using the FrontPage Server Extensions, follow these steps:
1. In FrontPage Editor, create a form.
2. Right-click any object in the form, and then click Form Properties on the menu that appears. The form is outlined by a dashed box.
3. In the Email Address box, type the e-mail address of the recipient.
4. Click OK.
  
  Note If the FrontPage Server Extensions are not configured to send a form in e-mail format, you receive the following message:
  The FrontPage Server Extensions have not been configured to send e-mail. Please direct your system administrator or Internet Service Provider to follow the instructions at 'Setting Up Your E-mail Transport' in the \SERK\enu\admin.htm file on the FrontPage CD-ROM.
  
  Would you like to remove the e-mail recipient?
  In this case, click Yes, and then contact the server administrator for help setting up the extensions to send e-mail.
  
  Note This error message may appear if you set a value for both the SMTPHost and the SendMailCommand parameters in the Frontpg.ini file. The command that you use depends on whether you are running a CERN- or an ISAPI-based server.
To set up a form to submit results as an e-mail attachment using a mailto URL, follow these steps:
1. In FrontPage Editor, create a form.
2. Right-click any object in the form, and then click Properties on the menu that appears. The form will be outlined by a dashed box.
3. Click Form.
4. On the Form Handler list, click Custom CGI Script, and then click Settings.
5. In the Action box, type the following, replacing everything after "mailto:" with the actual e-mail address you want to use:
```
mailto:example@microsoft.com
```
6. In the Method box, type or select Post, and then click OK.
7. Click OK two times.
  
  When your form is submitted, your e-mail program starts and opens a New Message window. The form will be sent as a text attachment if the sender's e-mail system and Web browser support this kind of action. If the sender's Web browser does not support the mailto URL, the sender can insert the text and manually send the message.