How to display a thank you page after visitor sends an e-mail?

[Guest]

I want to have a page with a thank you message displayed after a visitor
clicks send from outlook or whichever e-mail software they use as a result of
sending an e-mail from my contact us page. How do I do this?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Not possible unless you are using a form on your site to allow users to send you email.

If your live/remote server has the FP extensions and your host has them configured to process email
then you can use FP default conformation page or create a custom one.

If you live/remote server doesn't have the FP extensions, then you need to ask your host if they
offer a form handler or what server-side scripting language they support, etc.
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[Andrew Murray]

You could do this with the auto-reply feature in Outlook and use a rule to
filter which email address receiving the messages is used to send the reply;
you might have five email addresses, for example, and you use one for
correpsondence regarding your web site e.g. (e-mail address removed)

So, you set up an Outlook rule that says (to the effect of).
Where "To" equals (e-mail address removed) and Where "Subject" = "Website
Enquiry"
Send Reply to "From" address


That way, only emails sent to (e-mail address removed) and where subject = "web
site enquiry" will have a reply sent.

It's not the same thing as having the "thank you" page as Thomas Rowe says
in his reply but it is a work around and the best solution I can suggest, as
far as you describe the problem/question.

To set up an email link with a preset subject, make the link to the email
like
<a href="(e-mail address removed)?subject="Website Enquiry">Contact Us</a>

 

[Andrew Murray]

You could do this with the auto-reply feature in Outlook and use a rule to
filter which email address receiving the messages is used to send the reply;
you might have five email addresses, for example, and you use one for
correpsondence regarding your web site e.g. (e-mail address removed)
So, you set up an Outlook rule that says (to the effect of).
Where "To" equals (e-mail address removed)
Send Reply to "From" address
where "Subject" = "Website Enquiry"

That way, only emails sent to (e-mail address removed) and where subject = "web
site enquiry" will have a reply sent.

It's not the same thing as having the "thank you" page like Thomas says
below, but it is a work around and the best solution I can suggest, as you
describe your problem/question.