Newbie with ASP form

danielh68 · Jun 9, 2002

Hi,

I'm trying to build a form for our company site and I'm not having much success. The particular server our site sits on is Windows based and does have ASPmail components. I even found some info on the site pertaining to ASPmail at

http://home.verio.com/support/view_article.cfm?doc_id=566

.

Anyhow, I have created two pages: myform.asp & email-action.asp. You may view this at

http://www.optistreams.com/proto/myform.asp

. It's not much know. I wanted a simple form first and if it works, I can elaborate later.

Currently, if I type info into the input fields and submit it, I do receive an emial. However, I don't receive any user input. I really don't know what I'm doing wrong. Here's the code for both pages.

myform.asp:

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<body>
<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="email-action.asp" name="Info">
Your Name: <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="Mailer.FromName"><BR>
Your Address: <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="Mailer.FromAddress"><BR>
Subject: <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="Mailer.Subject"><BR>
Message: <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="Mailer.RemoteHost"><BR>
<BR>
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Send mail">
</FORM>
</body>
</html>

email-action.asp:

<%
Set Mailer = Server.CreateObject ("SMTPsvg.Mailer&quot

Mailer.FromName = "Optistreams"
Mailer.FromAddress = "danielopti@hotmail.com"
Mailer.Subject = "Your Widget Order"
Mailer.Subject = "New Contact"
Mailer.RemoteHost = "mail-fwd.verio-web.com"

Mailer.AddRecipient "Dan", "danielh68@sierratel.com"

if Mailer.SendMail then
' Message sent sucessfully
response.write ("Your message was sent&quot

else
' Message send failure
response.write ("Your message was not sent. &quot

response.write ("The error was: " & Mailer.Response)
end if
%>

A much advanced thanks to anyone who can provide help.

Best Regards,
DanH

BigBadDave · Jun 9, 2002

You need to change the second Mailer.Subject to Mailer.BodyText like this :

Code:

<% 
    Set Mailer = Server.CreateObject (&quot;SMTPsvg.Mailer&quot;) 
    Mailer.FromName = &quot;Optistreams&quot; 
    Mailer.FromAddress = &quot;danielopti@hotmail.com&quot; 
    Mailer.Subject = &quot;Your Widget Order&quot; 
    Mailer.

Code:

BodyText

Code:

 = &quot;New Contact&quot; 
    Mailer.RemoteHost = &quot;mail-fwd.verio-web.com&quot;  

    Mailer.AddRecipient &quot;Dan&quot;, &quot;danielh68@sierratel.com&quot;  

    If Mailer.SendMail Then 
        ' Message sent sucessfully 
        response.write (&quot;Your message was sent&quot;)       
    Else 
        ' Message send failure 
        response.write (&quot;Your message was not sent. &quot;) 
        response.write (&quot;The error was: &quot; & Mailer.Response) 
    End If 
%>

Regards

Big Bad Dave

davidbyng@hotmail.com

BigBadDave · Jun 9, 2002

Also if you want to collect information from a form you need to use Request.Form() like so :

Code:

<% 
    Set Mailer = Server.CreateObject (&quot;SMTPsvg.Mailer&quot;)
    Mailer.FromName = Request.Form(&quot;Mailer.FromName&quot;)
    Mailer.FromAddress = Request.Form(&quot;Mailer.FromAddress&quot;)
    Mailer.Subject = Request.Form(&quot;Mailer.Subject&quot;)
    Mailer.BodyText = Request.Form(&quot;Mailer.BodyText&quot;)
    Mailer.RemoteHost = &quot;mail-fwd.verio-web.com&quot;

    Mailer.AddRecipient &quot;Dan&quot;, &quot;danielh68@sierratel.com&quot;

    If Mailer.SendMail Then
        ' Message sent sucessfully
        response.write (&quot;Your message was sent&quot;)
    Else
        ' Message send failure
        response.write (&quot;Your message was not sent. &quot;)
        response.write (&quot;The error was: &quot; & Mailer.Response)
    End If
%>

Regards

Big Bad Dave

davidbyng@hotmail.com

danielh68 · Jun 9, 2002

Thanks everyone. I added BodyText and this:

Set Mailer = Server.CreateObject ("SMTPsvg.Mailer&quot

Mailer.FromName = Request.Form("Mailer.FromName&quot

Mailer.FromAddress = Request.Form("Mailer.FromAddress&quot

Mailer.Subject = Request.Form("Mailer.Subject&quot

Mailer.BodyText = Request.Form("Mailer.BodyText&quot

Mailer.RemoteHost = "mail-fwd.verio-web.com"

Mailer.AddRecipient "Dan", "danielh68@sierratel.com"

Yet, I still receive empty emails. The code makes perfect sense. The request is to grab info from the item in the form name FromName, etc. However, it doesn't follow the instruction. I must missing something. Any thoughts? Thanks.

DanH

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