Mailto problem for company's internal web

share drive, no server

[Blue_Tetra]

Hi guys, right now the internal web in my company does not have the web server. It is simply a share drive and folders. Right now I need to make a form that can be entered, refreshed and submitted to a specific email address. Is there any reference I can use? Or do you have any jscript to execute the process? I really need help! Many thanks

[toadhall]

Read this [isolani.co.uk] before you get too deep into maito: and javascript.

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[dhdweb]

I would recomend installing Apache on you main box, it is free and simple to setup even on a windows box!

[korkus2000]

They also mentioned in article posted by toadhall, a remote host that you could use that is hosting formmail. Don't know if they still are available or free, but it is worth a look.

[Blue_Tetra]

Setting a webserver is not gonna be happening soon. I have requested this but have to wait for more $$$ and resources. Any other possibilities to process form without web server? Thanks

[toadhall]

What I meant to draw to your attention was the lack of reliability in any 'extension' of the mailto: specification. Could cause a lot of upset, literally more trouble than it's worth.

If it's only to be used 'internally' then perhaps if everyone in your organization is using the same OS, browser and email application it would be less prone to break. If the email is going 'out' to the world at large then your clients/contacts may experience the aggravations described in the article.

Something to consider. :)

T

[dhdweb]

Setting a webserver is not gonna be happening soon. I have requested this but have to wait for more $$$

Apache is FREE, no $$$ needed!

You mentioned that you accessing a shared drive and folders, right?
And this is being done over a network, right?

Just setup Apache (free) as a local host on the the box that is sharing the drive and install a formmail cgi script.

Unless I am missing something in what you are trying to do, this will work just fine and also be free.

[dingman]

Not only is Apache Free [fsf.org], last I looked it had about a two-thirds market share. It's also, in my very biased oppinion, about the easiest piece of server software to get running I've ever administered. There are good documents at the project web site, and being as popular as it is, it's not hard to get help with if and when you need it.

[sun818]

You can install Personal Web Server (from Microsoft) which is also free. Then you can find a free .asp script on hotscripts.com that will do what you want for free. Apache is great. The opinion about it being easy to install is very biased... it definitely is not.

[andreasfriedrich]

I believe dingman is right though. Apache for Windows is really easy to install. It uses the MSInstaller. In fact it is so easy to install that you can even run it directly from CD ;)

Andreas

[sun818]

I stand corrected andreas. Last time I tried an install of Apache was on NT 4. I'm glad they've come a long since then. The install was pretty easy. How easy is it to set up formmail on Apache?