[Cialug] E-mail response

Dave Weis cialug@cialug.org
Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:30:06 -0600


Jerry Weida wrote:
> Straight HTML?  I'm afraid not.  You would need perl, php, or even a
> shell script to interact with the mail system.  This might be possible
> with SHTML, but I don't believe so.
> 
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:12:17 -0800 (PST), David Stout
> <ragbrai65@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>I have a web form and when the user clicks the submit button I would like to
>>have it send the contents of the form to an e-mail address. Can this be done
>>in HTML?

Actually you can set the form action to mailto:myaddress@here.com and do 
it all on the client side. Some browsers pop up scary security messages 
but it does work.