Re: Form action=mailto problem

by "April" <april(at)farstrider.org>
Date:	Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:28:59 -0600
To:	"D J Wessels" <djwessels(at)yahoo.com>, <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
References:	yahoo
	todo: View Thread, Original
Umm, the form you put below has nothing to do with anything server side from
what I understand.  Have you tried attempting to submit the form from a
different browser?  computer?


----- Original Message -----
From: "D J Wessels" <djwessels(at)yahoo.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 9:18 AM
Subject: Form action=mailto problem


> Hi, all! I have run upon an error (bug? feature?) that
> I had not previously encountered and wanted to see if
> anyone here had any experience resolving this.
>
> I am building online forms for my client's intranet,
> and they want the form results sent via email to the
> perrson who will handle them. As I always do, I built
> a one-item test form to make sure that the form would
> be submitted correctly, go where we expected, arrive
> intact with no data corruption, yada, yada. My main
> concern lay in the fact that the client is running an
> odd amalgamation of Novell and NT servers, and uses
> GroupWise 5.2 for their email services. Novell and NT
> are not known to work and play well together, so I've
> been doing an inordinate amount of testing throughout
> this project.
>
> Here's what happened: I put the form in place (see
> code below) on the intranet server (an NT box) and
> submitted a test. Instead of sending the form data in
> the body of a new email message to the email address
> listed, it opened a blank email message on the client
> machine, with the email address listed in the To:
> field. No form data, no nothing.
>
> I have never had a problem with this code, in better
> than five years of development work.
>
> I checked the Microsoft KB and found an article on How
> To Specify Mail Settings in the Microsoft Management
> Console (Q201526). I followed those instructions, but
> it did not change the form behavior.
>
> I opened this issue with Microsoft about six weeks
> ago, and all they can tell me is that this
> functionality is not discussed in RFC 2368 (which
> deals with messaging) so it can't be done. That does
> nothing to explain why I have been able to do this in
> the past, why most HTML tutorials I have seen state
> that this is the way to do it, and more importantly,
> it does nothing to tell me *how to fix it*.
>
> I wouldn't be all that concerned, except I don't want
> to find in six months that this was a symptom of a
> much larger problem.
>
> Any insight you may have would be appreciated.
>
> Here is my "form page":
> ***************************************
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>Form</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <form method="post" action="mailto:me(at)company.com"
> enctype="text/plain">
> <p>Name: <input type=text name=FirstName size=30></p>
> <p><input type=submit></p>
> </form>
> </body>
> </html>
> ***************************************
>
> Thanks again for your assistance.
>
> Dottie
>
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