Mailto in Form

[Jerry]

I'm using mailto as a custom form handler and it works great in Outlook but
does not work using Outlook Express. I get a warning message box telling me
that a program is trying to send an email but the 'to' field in the message
is blank and if I say 'send' or 'do not send' nothing further happens. Is
there a FrontPage setting I'm missing or is it Outlook Express or what?

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

Do you mean you are setting the action of the form tag to mailto? If so,
don't. There is no mailto action. This was created ages ago by one of the
browser makers (can't remember if it was Netscape or MS) and is not standard
and will not work with all browsers.

 

[Jerry]

That is indeed what I mean. Outlook sends a very nice email with my form
data included. Vista Windows Mail sends an email with the form data in an
attachment called postdata.att and Outlook Express does nothing. OK, if
mailto is not supported is there another option somewhere that will let me
send the data as an email without having to talk my ISP into making changes
they don't want to do?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

No, your web host would have to provide you with access to a form handler.

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[Leon Hao [MSFT]]

Hi,

¡°Mailto¡± is an Application-based Protocol when mailto is typed in the
Shell Run dialog box. In other words, the registered application handler
(HKCR\mailto) is invoked.

The e-mail client (what ever it is Outlook or Outlook Express) must have
made the appropriate registry entries for this to work. For more
information about the registry entries, refer to the following article in
the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

154359 How to change the default mail client for Internet Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;154359

For more information on how to use the mailto protocol, refer to the
following KB article:

279460 How to use the mailto: protocol in a <FORM> action
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;279460

Meanwhile, this is an development issue. For further assistance with this
issue, please consider the following channels:

1. MSDN newsgroups for peer experiences and recommendations:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp.

2. Public newsgroups for peer experiences and recommendations:

microsoft.public.office.developer.vba


Regards,

Leon Hao

Microsoft Online Partner Support
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