Stuck!...

[tom bennett]

Hi folks,

I'm a wee bit of an amateur but have a question,

I have the domain, www.tom-bennett.com and am currently in the process of
designing the site. I have a temp page up at the mo.

I am investigating the use of forms. Now the last site I did was with
publisher and inserting a form was really easy, I told it i wanted the data
to be sent by email, gave it my email address and hey presto, i recieved the
data.

How do i do it so the data written in the form is sent to me via email?! Do
i need some sort of cgi script? Do I need to ensure a "certain service" is
available on my server? If so which service?

The simplest way would be appreciated !

Thanks folks.

Tom.

[Greg]

It would be easier if you used CDOMail or ASPMail instead of cgi. Check to
see if your hosting company has these components installed. If so, then
it's pretty easy. I can email you the .asp code that will interact with your
form.

"tom bennett" <ma...@tombennett.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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[Pete]

"tom bennett" <ma...@tombennett.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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Hi tom

It's probably easiest to use a cgi script called formmail.pl. In order to
use this, a recent version of Perl needs to be installed on the server (by
the hosting company). Most hosting companies offer this as a standard part
of the service, but in your case, I believe that unless you've paid for the
200MB service or upwards, you need to ask them to upgrade to cgi. I presume
they'll charge you for this. If the fee is high, I suggest you move to
another host.

The best thing to do is to go to http://www.appbuild.com/formmail_help.html
and print out the instructions, which are very easy to follow.

If you follow the instructions carefully, you shouldn't have any major
problems.

Regards

Pete