html emails generated via asp

the possibility of submtting an html email from outlook express

[natty]

hi all,
unsure whether this is the correct forum, but here goes.
we have some internal (web page) forms that when they are submitted, they generate/send an html email - via asp - which in turn is submitted from outlook express onto someone else in the chain of work.

this all works ok, but..
as scripting in OE is chopped somewhat, it is not obvious that the recieved email form has been (re-)submitted, as its impossible to disable the submit button, or any other thing like that.

is there anythign i can do.. short of getting the user to save the html email as a web page, and submitting it from their desktop..(it submits to a asp page on our server).

any help much appreciated.
cheers,
nathan

[Mardi_Gras]

Maybe this is a silly question, but why does the e-mail have to be "resubmitted" to another user? Is there some processing that is being done to it before it is forwarded?

[natty]

indeed there is .. sadly..

[Mardi_Gras]

If you could be a little more specific about what you are doing perhaps someone could help you out - or suggest an alternative process that might achieve the same results.

[duckhunter]

Sounds like you need to stop the user from submitting twice? If so, set a cookie when they first submit and if the cookie value=submitted then don't send the email.

If you only need to stop resubmittal for a single session, then you can use a Session Variable instead.