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How
do I send email from my website?
Many
users need a way to send or email from their sites. One example
of why a user would want this functionality is if the client had
a "form" on their Website, perhaps an order form, which
they wished to have Web visitors click on "submit". After
clicking on "submit", the results of the form - the order
for a product in this case - would be Emailed to the client's Email
address. This is by far the most common way that clients take orders
over the Web.
If you wish
to do this, you have two choices, and you would choose one of these
methods depending on how your site is set up and your level of programming
knowledge:
1) Use
FrontPage - This is the most simple and easy way
to submit a form over the Web, especially if you are new to
building Web sites. All you need to do is create your form in
FrontPage, and FrontPage automatically takes care of the background
programming and setting up the system to Email the form directly
from your Web site. Simply follow FrontPage's simple set-up
instructions, enter the Email address where you wish to receive
your form in the appropriate box, and you are all set! For more
details, simply see the FrontPage user manual or the Microsoft
FrontPage Web site at www.microsoft.com/frontpage.
2) Use a CGI Script - Non-FrontPage
users may use a custom CGI script, known as a formmail script,
to post Email directly from their Web sites. There are many
scripts available for free in many places on the Web, including
such well-known resources as Matt's Script Archive. Of course,
you will need to customize your script a bit, but that is a
relatively simple process.
You may use
any one of these two methods to send mail from your Web site. Please
note that host.ie cannot provide programming or scripting help,
and hosting365.ie cannot troubleshoot your script for you.
As you might
expect, our support focuses on Web hosting issues, and while it
is important for us to maintain robust systems that fully support
PHP, Java, and CGI scripting, we leave the trouble-shooting of the
scripts themselves to the professionals in that field. It is a business
unto itself, and there are many resources devoted to programming
help.
For
FrontPage help, please see
www.microsoft.com/frontpage. For CGI and Perl help, please contact
a Perl programmer or your developer.
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