email form question

[JM Okuzono]

Does anyone know if it is possible to create a form on a Windows server
(front page, cold fusion ect...) that will send you the outcome and
automatically insert the users email address in the "To..." box so you won't
have to when hitting reply?

Thank you for the help!

Joann

[David Dorward]

JM Okuzono wrote:

Does anyone know if it is possible to create a form on a Windows server
(front page, cold fusion ect...) that will send you the outcome and
automatically insert the users email address in the "To..." box so you
won't have to when hitting reply?

Its possible, but not an HTML authoring issue. How you go about it depends
on the language. In PHP its a case of using the 4th (IIRC) parameter to the
mail() function to specify a custom set of mail headers including a From
line.

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[Geoff Muldoon]

do*****@yahoo.com says...

Does anyone know if it is possible to create a form on a Windows server
(front page, cold fusion ect...) that will send you the outcome and
automatically insert the users email address in the "To..." box so you
won't have to when hitting reply?

Its possible, but not an HTML authoring issue. How you go about it depends
on the language. In PHP its a case of using the 4th (IIRC) parameter to the
mail() function to specify a custom set of mail headers including a From
line.

While acknowledging that this is OT for c.i.w.a.h ....

Actually, that depends on the level of "trust" your email server has in
PHP, most having anti-mail-relay prevention measures which over-ride
many header settings. More recent versions of PHP have a 5th parameter
which handles this better.

$from_addr="me@somewhere";
$params="-f".$from_addr;
mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers, $params);

Geoff M

[Philipp Lenssen]

JM Okuzono wrote:

Does anyone know if it is possible to create a form on a Windows
server (front page, cold fusion ect...) that will send you the
outcome and automatically insert the users email address in the
"To..." box so you won't have to when hitting reply?

If you mean a form that will somehow magically know the email of the
user, no, that's not possible. It would be a security risk. You can
however use IExplorer-specific workarounds.

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[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

JM Okuzono pounced upon this pigeonhole and pronounced:

Does anyone know if it is possible to create a form on a Windows server
(front page, cold fusion ect...) that will send you the outcome and
automatically insert the users email address in the "To..." box so you won't
have to when hitting reply?

You can do that - fill in the visitor's email - on a windows server, but
it has to be a server-side process. I do this for one of my clients, using
ASP. In part, the script reads as follows, with the various parts coming
from the HTML contact form:

if lcemail<>"" then
lcemail = "<" & lcemail & ">"
else

end if

objCDO.From = lcname & lcemail
objCDO.To = "Clientname<cl*********@example.com>"
objCDO.Subject = cSubject
objCDO.TextBody = cBody
objCDO.Send

The client is trained to look for what appear to be legitimate email
addresses when he downloads the mail, and only reply if this is the case.
The HTML form has no place for the visitor to enter a TO: address, only
his/her FROM: address.

In the couple years this form has been in use, nobody has ever filled it
out without entering a valid FROM: address. Knock wood.

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