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Quick question on Front Page 2000 forms. How do you
specify "where" the email is coming from? I have a form
set up that, when a user fills it out, gets delivered to
my email address. I get the email, but there is no From
Name or From Address. It's just blank.
Any help would be great.
Thanks.
 
You have to set a form field named Email_Address
for them to enter their E-mail address.
Then right click the form, select Form properties,
then the Options tab then the Email results tab and select Email_Address.

Then when you receive and e-mail and click "Reply to" the address will
appear.

hth

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Quick question on Front Page 2000 forms. How do you
specify "where" the email is coming from? I have a form
set up that, when a user fills it out, gets delivered to
my email address. I get the email, but there is no From
Name or From Address. It's just blank.
Any help would be great.
Thanks.
 
Thanks for the reply. That helps because I wasn't aware
that I could create a Reply-To address.

But I was hoping there was a way to specify a From Address
or a From Name when I get the email. What's happening is,
I am getting the form results emailed to me. But there is
a subject and no email address... like the email is coming
from no one. (I launch Outlook, I see the email, I see the
subject, but From is empty.) I'm not real worried about
replying to the person who filled out the form. I just
want the form to come from somewhere...and not be blank.
(Spam filters usually remove emails with no From name or
address.)

Thanks again.
 
No,
The From address will always be a server address associated with
your web site.


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95isalive
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Thanks for the reply. That helps because I wasn't aware
that I could create a Reply-To address.

But I was hoping there was a way to specify a From Address
or a From Name when I get the email. What's happening is,
I am getting the form results emailed to me. But there is
a subject and no email address... like the email is coming
from no one. (I launch Outlook, I see the email, I see the
subject, but From is empty.) I'm not real worried about
replying to the person who filled out the form. I just
want the form to come from somewhere...and not be blank.
(Spam filters usually remove emails with no From name or
address.)

Thanks again.
 
The from address is set up as part of the FP server extensions'
configuration. Your host will have to do this.

HTH
Ron
 
However, it still be a single email address for any emails sent from your
web site, it will never be the name/email address of the user completing the
form, as it is not the user sending the email, it is your website.

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I am responding to my original post, but I don't know if
anyone reads back this far, but I'm giving it a shot.

Using a Front Page form, I wasn't getting form resultes
delivered to my email account hosted with my host. But
when I changed the recipient in Front Page do a different
email address (like yahoo), it WOULD get delievered. My
host told me that I can't use Front Page for my form
because, the form mail in frontpage doesn't include
the "From:" variable and it's being rejected by our their
Mailhub server.

Has anyone ever heard of this? I can't use formmail.pl
because I don't know cgi. Should my host accomadate my
Front Page form?

Chrissy
 
Yes, I have heard of this, but it is up to the host on what functions of the
FP extensions they want to support or not support. There are plenty of host
that do support this function.

Your options are to use the other email address or learn to configure
formmail.pl and use it.

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