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Old 02-19-2008, 07:39 PM Comments Box problem
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Hey all,

Im working on a comments/feedback/Questions box. because my hosting service for right now does not really have a "bin", I decided to use my email adress as the mailto: destination. Heres my code. First of all, I put in my email adress, cubeixwebmaster@yahoo.com for the message to be sent to, and then when I test it on my page, and submite a message, not only does the message not end up at my yahoo inbox, it ends up in outlook. As well as the message ending up in the outbox of outlook, with an attachement being named POSTDATA.ATT. How come its not going to my yahoo acount. Do i need to define the service in the code? Sorry if im not being to clear, but its a little hard for me to explain. Heres my code. Maybe it will help some

<h2>Contact Us</h2>
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<p>Thank you for taking the time to contact us. Please Leave us a measage and we will respond as soon as possible.</p>
<FORM

METHOD="post" ENCTYPE="text/css" ACTION="mailto:cubeixwebmaster@yahoo.com">

<BR>Name
<BR>
<INPUT TPYE="text" NAME="purchase"SIZE="45"

<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Please Post your commment here
<BR>
<TEXTAREA NAME="comment"ROWS="10" COLS="70" Wrap="hard">
</TEXTAREA>

<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Subject
<BR><SELECT NAME="urgent" SIZE="1">
<OPTION VALUE="Comment">Comment
<OPTION VALUE="Payment Issue">Payment Issue
<OPTION VALUE="Website Issue">Website Issue
<OPTION VALUE="Complaint">Complaint
<OPTION VALUE="Other">Other
</SELECT>
<BR><BR><INPUT TYPE="submit" Value="Submit">
<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">alert'Thank You'</SCRIPT>
<INPUT TYPE="reset" Value="Reset">
<BR>
<BR>
</FORM>

Thanks so much
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Old 02-19-2008, 08:29 PM Re: Comments Box problem
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Well, that's what happens when you use a simple mailto: link and you have Outlook - or any default mail program, the mail is going to default to that.
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Old 02-19-2008, 08:38 PM Re: Comments Box problem
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Whats the best way to fix that? maybe uninstall outlook, or make yahoo my defalt? Or does the answer lie in the codeing?
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Old 02-19-2008, 08:46 PM Re: Comments Box problem
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Using a webform posting to a mailto link will always be messy and never guaranteed to work. You need some type of server-side solution. If, for example, your hosting provider allows php, you can find free stuff out there that would work perfect for a mailto form that actually processes the form data and mails to your specified email address directly from the server and leaves the client-side interaction of mailing the form out.
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Old 02-20-2008, 11:39 PM Re: Comments Box problem
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Thanks for the help guys! I switched php instead of mailto:
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