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Mailing form to someone other than me

user inputs email and form goes to them

         

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9:56 pm on Jan 13, 2007 (gmt 0)

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I am having the user fill out textarea fields which are their personal goals. I want them to enter their email address and be able to email the form to themselves. The action for mailto seems to be a fixed email address? Is there a way to capture the email address inputed and have that be the mailto address? I dont want to see their text in the form or have a copy. Its just for them.
I know little about scripting etc so i either need a simple solution i understand or ready code.

A secondrate solution would be to print them out but they seem a pain to format and i would rather they had an electronic form.

thanks for the help.

topr8

10:21 pm on Jan 13, 2007 (gmt 0)

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if you find a solution, beware of automatied bots using your form (and thus mail server) to send out spam rather than what you think it will be used for.

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10:27 pm on Jan 13, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Good point. I am used to doing pages on intranets. I forget about the wild west of the internet. Perhaps I should skip it then. I will look into printing the forms instead though from what i have seen, getting forms to print into legible output seems to be an art in itself. Anyone have any tips?

kaled

12:51 pm on Jan 14, 2007 (gmt 0)

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If you included some form of captcha-like methodology (to distinguish humans from bots) and/or IP-address logging/restriction to block bulk emailers you should be ok.

Kaled.