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Define your form
- In FrontPage 2000 or in FrontPage 2002, open the page, right-click the form
(inside the dashed border), and then click Form Properties.
- In the E-mail Address box, type your e-mail address.
- Click OK.
- On the File menu, click Save.
Set up your e-mail transport
To send form results to an e-mail host, the FrontPage Server
Extensions require a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server. The FrontPage
Server Extensions do not support any other form of e-mail server software.
To send e-mail from IIS, configure the
FrontPage Server Extensions in the FrontPage Management Console on the Microsoft Windows
NT Server that is running IIS to deliver the mail to an e-mail transport. To do
this, follow these steps:
- In Microsoft Windows Explorer, open the Microsoft Management Console.
By default, this file is located in the following folder:C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server
Extensions\40\bin\fpmmc.msc
- In the Microsoft Management Console, expand FrontPage
Server Extensions.
- Right-click the folder that has your computer name, click Properties, and then click the Server Extensions tab.
- In the Options section, click Settings.
- In the Web server's mail address box, type
the e-mail address that you want to appear in the From line of e-mail messages sent by your form results
component.
- Click OK two times.
- On the Console menu, click Exit.
Note If you use the Internet Service Manager (ISM) from the Microsoft Windows
NT 4.0 Option Pack to install the FrontPage Server Extensions, you must
configure your mail transport in the same Microsoft Management Console. To do
this, open the properties of the site, click the
Server Extension tab, and then follow steps 3 through 7 in the "Set up your e-mail transport" section.
For transport to work, you must use the same
interface (Microsoft Management Console) that you used to install the
extensions.
Possible error messages
If the SMTP host is present when the form is created, but the
SMTP host is later removed (and the form has not changed since then), you
receive the following error message on a default page that is returned by the form when
the form is submitted:
FrontPage Error.
User:
Please report details to this site's webmaster.
Webmaster: Please see the
server's application event log for more details.
The following event
is logged in the application event log of the server that is running the
FrontPage Extensions:
Event 160005 Bad response from
SMTP server
If e-mail is not configured when the form is created,
you receive the following error message from FrontPage 2000 or from FrontPage 2002 :
The FrontPage Server Extensions have not been configured to send e-mail. Please
direct your system administrator or Internet Service Provider to the
instructions in 'Setting Up Your E-mail Options on Windows' or 'Setting up
Email options on UNIX' in the Server Extensions Resource Kit.
Would
you like to remove the e-mail recipient? (Yes or No)
If you choose
not to remove the e-mail recipient and the extensions are not configured
correctly when the form is filled out and submitted, the form is refreshed but
a background image (if previously present) does not appear, and the address
line in your browser is changed from this:
http://WebServerURL/YourSubWeb/formtoemail2.htm
to one of the following:
- On a UNIX Web Server:
http://WebServerURL/YourSubWeb/_vti_bin/shtml.exe/formtoemail2.htm
- On a Microsoft Windows Web Server:
http://WebServerURL/YourSubWeb/_vti_bin/shtml.dll/formtoemail2.htm
This error occurs whenever you have a configuration issue
with any dynamic run-time components in FrontPage 2000 and in FrontPage 2002.
If the
form is configured to save results to a file or to send e-mail at the same time
and the FrontPage Server Extensions are not configured to handle e-mail, a
0-byte file is created. It does not contain any data, you do not receive an error
message, and the mail is not sent.