Seeking an ASP equivalent to FormMail

by "Astrid" <astrid(at)infusion.com.au>

 Date:  Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:10:32 +0800
 To:  "wdj-discuss@WebDevelopersJournal. com" <wdj-discuss(at)WebDevelopersJournal.com>,
"HWG Techniques List" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
 Cc:  "Astrid \(MOJ\)" <millera(at)justice.moj.wa.gov.au>, <nadja.saralam(at)csc.com.au>
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Help !

We are seeking an ASP equivalent to FormMail, for use on an NT/Site Server
Intranet.

We have a large team of divisional HTML content developers, each of which
need to be able to produce their own HTML forms (as opposed to ASP driven
forms), that will mail any submitted data back to them (or to another
person) in a user friendly email format.

The standard:
<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="mailto:xxx(at)xxx.xxx" ENCTYPE="text/plain">
does not appear to work in our environment.

We don't want to use a client-side application such as "Mailto Formatter",
as it would need to be distributed too widely, so this won't work for us
either:
<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="mailto:xxx(at)xxx.xxx"
ENCTYPE="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">

Accordingly, we need a server-side ASP alternative, to a standard CGI
form-handling script, that content developers can set their FORM ACTION to:
<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="script.asp">

The script would need to write each of the FORM field names and values on a
seperate line of an email message, and allow for a few hidden fields such
as:
	- destination email address (one or more)
	- cc email address (one or more)
	- message subject
	- message header
	- message footer
	- origin URL
	- post-submission result page URL
	- origin email address

Preferably, we'd like it to also insert the entered value of an EMAIL field,
in the FROM field of the resulting message, if possible (ie. as the reply
address).

Additional hidden fields that would also be useful include:
	- sorting order (comma delimited list in order of desired display)
	- required fields (comma delimited list of required fields - returning an
error message if not completed)

Can anyone point us to an ASP solution that will fulfill these requirements
? - or will we need to write one ourselves ?  Have others run up against
this problem before ? - how did you solve it ?  Is there a different
approach we should be considering ?

Any assistance that can be provided would be greatly appreciated.

--
Cheers, Astrid.

Astrid A. Miller
Intranet Administrator - WA Ministry of Justice
CSC IT Solutions Australia
Ph: (08) 9264 1101
Mobile: 0402 123 762
Email: millera(at)justice.wa.gov.au

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