ASP Form Emailer: mailto.asp

MAILTO will allow you to create your own form and have the results formatted and sent to one (or more) mail addresses. You can specify the name of the mail server, subject of the mail and (if you use the right fields), the mail will appear at your chosen account with the correct user name and email address (so that you can reply to it).

Example - this is a simple web form

<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="/scripts/mailto.asp" >
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="to" VALUE="address@server.com">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="server" VALUE="mail.lonetree.com">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="subject" VALUE="Form results">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="success" VALUE="http://www.yourdomain.com/result.htm">
<B>Your details:</B>
Name: <INPUT NAME="uname" SIZE=30>
Position: <INPUT NAME="title" SIZE=30>
Company Name: <INPUT NAME="company" SIZE=40>
E-Mail: <INPUT NAME="email" SIZE=30>

Press <INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Submit"> and your request will be processed or <INPUT TYPE="reset" VALUE="Clear"> to start again.
We aim to respond within 24 hours.

When the user presses the SUBMIT button, the information is sent to the WWW server which calls /scripts/mailto.asp. MAILTO will read the details sent and format a message which looks something like:

From: My Name <other@company.com>
To: <address@server.com>
Subject: Form results
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 95 13:22:28 GMT+0000

The following form contents were entered on 22nd Jun 95
Date = 22 Jun 95 13:22:26
subject = Form results
uname = My Name
title = Network Administrator
company = Elephants Inc
email = other@company.com

Generally, the sendto hidden field, is your address, or the address that you wish the form results sent to.

The Fields

This is a list of fields that the MAILTO will automatically use. All other fields will be decoded and placed into the mail message.

to	The address of the recipient of the email message. This field is mandatory.
cc	A comma separated list of other recipients of the form contents. (optional)
server	Name of mail server to send the mail to. Lonetree.Com Customers can use mail.lonetree.com or dax.lonetree.com for the server name.
subject	The subject of the mail message. (optional)
success	The full URL for the next page to display. (optional)
error	The full URL for the next page to display if an error occurred. (optional)
uname	Name of the user (which will be inserted into the from clause to aid filing). (optional)
email	The email address of the person filling the form. The contents of this field will also be placed into the From: clause of the mail message. When you receive this message, you will be able to type "Reply" and reply to the person who filled the form.  This field is mandatory.

Company and product names are registered trademarks of individual companies and are respectfully acknowledged.