Vincent Puglia — Sat, 29 Jul 2000 03:13:55 +0000

Hi Michelle,

AOL has cgi (at least for mail to the site owner). I use it at my site. If you can sign on as your client (her screenname) or a friend's, type the aol keyword 'bhp' into the aol browser. They have a bunch of tutorials on using their cgi program. Or, you can go to my site (top right hand corner of the home page), click on the email me button. rightClick on the form page. You should be able to download the form template as well with file-save. If this makes no sense, let me know and I'll either explain everything here for you or send you the tutorials.

Vinny

Form to Email

MichelleB — Fri, 28 Jul 2000 23:10:33 +0000

Thanks for all the help.

I use FormMail on my own Web site, yes it is great! However, I need another option for my client's Web site. She is with aol which does not support cgi.

I think I will take Mike's advice and try Bravenet Web Services.

If anyone has other suggestions about working with aol, please send them my way.

Thanks for being here,

MichelleB
mrae@primenet.com

Vincent Puglia — Fri, 28 Jul 2000 12:10:51 +0000

Hi,

I've never had occasion to use it (matt's formmail), but I've seen it and heard good things about it -- in other words, my rec also (for what it's worth).

Vinny

xrs — Fri, 28 Jul 2000 05:46:55 +0000

If you choose to go the CGI/Perl route on your own server, I'd strongly recommend Matt's Formmail program available at http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/

Try Bravenet Web Services

mtgm — Fri, 28 Jul 2000 02:55:10 +0000

You can sign-up with Bravenet Web Services. They offer free, e-mail form processing without any banner advertisements. See http://bravenet.com/samples/emailforms.php.

Vincent Puglia — Fri, 28 Jul 2000 02:37:52 +0000

Hi,

Welcome to reality!

Sending form data with mailto: is a very frustrating and iffy thing to do. With IE, users will get Outlook popping up more often than not and have to manually enter the data. With Netscape, you can add the subject & content as in:

mailto:myname@domain.com?subject=subText;content=formDataStr

but unless if you are good at formatting data, it will look like garbage by the time you get it.

Best choices:
See if your host provider provides a cgi program and/or cgi rights (if not, consider moving). If they have both, great. If you can run cgi, but have no program, you can pick up a program at http://www.cgi-resources.com

Hope this helps
Vinny