MAILTO executable

MAILTO.EXE 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).  To be able to use this executable, email Monica@TurboNet.com to be added to the permission list.

Example

This example is part of the NTMail Key Application Form:

<FORM ACTION="http://www.palouse.net/cgi-bin/mailto.exe" METHOD="post">
<input type="hidden" NAME="sendto" VALUE="your_email_account@turbonet.com">
<Input type="hidden" Name="server" value="mail.turbonet.com">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="subject" value="You subject line">
<INPUT type="hidden" NAME="resulturl" value="http://www.palouse.net/your_page.htm">
<INPUT type="hidden" NAME="email" value="postmaster@turbonet.com">

<PRE>
<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="mail" SIZE=30>

Press &ltINPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Submit"> and your request will be processed or
&ltINPUT 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 /cgi-bin/mailto.exe. MAILTO will read the details sent and format a message which looks something like:

From: postmaster@turbonet.com
To: your_email_account@turbonet.com
Subject: Your subject line
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 = Your Subject Line
uname = A N Other
title = Network Administrator
company = Elephants Inc
mail = other@company.com

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.

• sendto The address of the receipient of the email message. This field is mandatory.
• cc A comma seperated list of other receipients of the form contents. This is optional.
• server Name of mail server to send the mail to. This must be a CNAME and it ommitted the localhost will be used.
• subject The subject of the mail message (optional).
• resulturl The full URL for the next page to dispaly.
• resulttxt Some text that is displayed in the Thankyou message.
• 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. (What could be easier?) (optional).

If neither resulturl nor resulttxt are displayed, you will see the default "Thankyou" message.

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