do i need an SMTP server

[bookouri]

I have a website running on Windows server 2003 and IIS. I don't manage or have access to any exchange servers or email servers, this is just a stand alone basic web site server with some information pages. But, now I have been asked to provide a feedback/email form and I quickly discovered that emailto forms just dont work. Everything I have researched recommends using your SMTP server and server side scripts to get around the emailto form problem. I can add the SMTP service to my server, but I dont have a clue what I need to make it work or even if that will solve my problem. Can anybody point me in the right direction?

 

[thompom]

Hi,

You can use the form tag to email somebody from html
This is a very simple method but may get you started
(also you should post in html forum for more help)

html

<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="mailto:someone@$nailmail.com" ENCTYPE="text/plain">
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="username"> : name <BR>
<INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Send">
</form>

visit

http://www.angelfire.com/fl5/html-tutorial/easyform.htm

for more info

hope this helps

 

[Wullie]

Mailto requires the user to have a mail client setup on the machine they are using and in my personal experience, a huge amount of people can't use them.

A feedback/email form is definately something that needs to be server-side, not client-side.

Wullie

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