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I'd like to set up an email form that automatically places the name and mail address of the user into the correct format in order to control a mailling list system.
The idea was:
<form name="myform" action='mailto:myaddress@mydomain.com&body=subscribe <mymaillinglist>".name." <".mailaddress.">' method="post" enctype="text/plain">
Name: <input type="text" name="name" size=15><br>
Mail address: <input type="text" name="mailaddress" size=15>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
The result what I wanted to acceive was that an email is send to the mailling list address (there's an global email address to control/edit the mailling list) with the content (body) subscribe <mymaillinglist> Username <usersemailaddress@usersdomain.com>.
Well, it didn't work. My guess is that "Name" and "Mail address" aren't variables that can be processed that way?!
What would in your opinion be the best way of doing this?
Many thanks in advance!
If you can't host a server side-script yourself for some reason, there are free remotely hosted solutions available that will give you moderately acceptable results.
Thanks for your reply.
Perhaps one this to clarify:
I don't want the information to be send to me. It has to be send to the email address of the maillinglist. The data has to be in the correct format in order to make it work.
The part I am mostly interested in (and where I'm stuck also) is how I can directly insert the data into the correct position in the body of the email.
As for using scripts, thanks for your suggestion. I was already planing on doing this, the mailto version was intended to check out the general working principle.
