Forms and POSTDATA.ATT

[Guest]

When I get emailed from users using this form, their comments arrive as an attatchment called POSTDATA.ATT rather than in the body of the email.
The strange thing is that it only happens when the user is using Internet Explorer on Windows. If the user is using a different browser on Mac or Linux then it works fine.

<form name="support" action="mailto:[email protected]" method="post"><textarea cols=50 rows=15 name="comment" wrap="soft"></textarea><br><br><INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Submit (Click only once)"><INPUT TYPE="RESET" VALUE="Reset"></form>

 

[Jim Buyens]

Right.

When you configure a form to send mail using
action="mailto:...", you're actually invoking the Web
visitor's local mail program. Microsoft Outlook, at least,
responds by sending the form's POST information in an
attached file named (you guessed it) POSTDATA.ATT.

There's really nothing you can do about this, except to
start using a server-side mailer program. The FrontPage
Server Extensions can do this for you, or you can write an
ASP or ASP.NET page, or you can use any of many, many
freeware products. Your hosting provider almost certainly
has one or more of these products already installed for
your use. Check their support pages.

One bit advantage of sending mail from the server is that
all the mail arrives in the same format (because the same
program always sends it).

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
Author of:
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-----Original Message-----
When I get emailed from users using this form, their

comments arrive as an attatchment called POSTDATA.ATT
rather than in the body of the email.

The strange thing is that it only happens when the user

is using Internet Explorer on Windows. If the user is
using a different browser on Mac or Linux then it works
fine.

<form name="support" action="mailto:[email protected]"

method="post"><textarea cols=50 rows=15 name="comment"
wrap="soft">

 

[Andrew Murray]

shouldn't that be action=post and method=mailto......
you have these the other way around

when you think about it, its logical

the ACTION is to POST the data and the METHOD is to MAILTO:

When I get emailed from users using this form, their comments arrive as an

attatchment called POSTDATA.ATT rather than in the body of the email.

The strange thing is that it only happens when the user is using Internet

Explorer on Windows. If the user is using a different browser on Mac or Linux
then it works fine.

<form name="support" action="mailto:[email protected]"

method="post"><textarea cols=50 rows=15 name="comment"
wrap="soft"></textarea><br><br><INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Submit (Click only
once)"><INPUT TYPE="RESET" VALUE="Reset"></form>

 

[Ronx]

No!
Action is the form handler: mailto:addy / .asp page / .pl script /
FPextensions / .....
Method is how the data is sent to the handler - usually either POST or
GET