FP: How to Set Up a Form to Post Results by E-mail

This article describes how to set up a FrontPage form to submit form results as an e-mail attachment rather than saving the results in a file. Note that some browsers may not support the mailto Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

NOTES:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer, versions 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 do not support the inclusion of form output to a mailto URL.
• Posting results by e-mail works only if the client has a Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) compliant e-mail system.

To set up a form to submit results as an e-mail attachment, follow these steps:

1. In FrontPage Editor, create a form.
2. Right-click any object in the form, and then click Properties on the menu that appears.
   
   The form will be outlined by a dashed box.
3. Click Form.
4. From the Form Handler list, click Custom CGI Script and then click Settings.
5. In the Action box, type the following, replacing everything after "mailto:" with the actual e-mail address you want to use:

         mailto:example@microsoft.com

6. In the Method box, type or select Post, and then click OK.
7. Click OK twice.

When your form is submitted, your e-mail program starts and opens a New Message window. The form will be sent as a text attachment if the sender's e-mail system and Web browser support this type of action. If the sender's Web browser does not support the mailto URL, the sender can insert the text and manually send the message.