E-mail Form - - - HELP!

Everyone has one, I need one, but can't figure it out...

[tclcorp]

This forum has helped me so much with HTML and AdWords....hopefully someone in this subject can help me with this simple yet tormenting (to me, anyway) problem. I have a website in which I need prospects who visit to e-mail me with the simplest of info. so I can contact them back for estimates, etc... The neccessities include: return e-mail, name, phone #, and comments. I made an HTML "mailto:" form (which is AWESOME, with pull-downs selecting where/how they found our page, etc...). As you experts know, IE (94% of my visitors use IE according to my site Stats) causes a big "WARNING" sign to pop up warning them to beware that they're sending me their e-mail address, etc... Then, if they even decide to continue, it forces them to use Outlook as the mail client. Out of 6,000+ visitors thus far (2 week period), I've received ONE (yes, that's 1) e-mail! I know I need something that goes direct when they hit submit and that it's some kind of "cgi script" thing.....and my server even has a cgi script thing in it with the following as the URL for it:
[mydomainname.com...] But, I haven't the faintest idea how to do this! It goes to some instructions saying I need some new file with an ASCII file ---- HUH? HOW? I found somewhere that a novice should be able to do it in 5 mins. and an expert webmaster can do it in under 2 minutes! I've been pulling my hair out on this for 12 hours! I don't think I am THAT dumb, or am I? Also, checked out all the free stuff like Matt's scripts (infact, there's even one of those too in my cgi thingy on my server) but a page comes up saying this:

FormMail-Clone
This is FormMail-clone, a clone of FormMail.cgi. It is a clean room version for legal purposes (a less restrictive liscense), but should behave the exact same way as Matt Wright's Original, but contain none of his code.

All I want is a simple form that can look like the rest of my site, doesn't scare people away with "WARNINGS", and will work with most browsers. I know this is easy for you experts, but I'm done with it! HELP!
Thanks, Mark

[bunltd]

To use the formmail script you need a form on your contact page. The form's action will be a post to the url of the formmail script. The post sends the fields on your form to the script and the script does it's thing, you get an e-mail.

Your form will have to have a few required fields, like recipient which is your e-mail, there may be others depending on the version or set-up of your host.

Hope this helps.

LisaB

[tclcorp]

Bunltd,
Thanks Lisa....it's kind of working now! I pointed the action like this:

<form name="form3" method="post" enctype="text/plain" action="http://mydomain.com/cgi-sys/FormMail.cgi ">

But, where do I put the "recipient" field and how do I write it? I put it like this at end of form under the submit button:

<input type="submit" value="Submit" width="95" height="33">
<input type="hidden" recipient="[e-mail]">
</p>
</form>

But I then get this error page after hitting submit:

There are missing fields!
recipient is missing

Form Dump:

I know I'm almost there...YEAH! Just need to know where to put, and how to write, the recipient field. Thanks :)

[bunltd]

Try this:

<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="[e-mail]">

What editor are you using? Most have the basic form elements built in.

LisaB

[tclcorp]

I couldn't get it working, Bunltd. :( I replaced the value= with my e-mail address info., etc... This may sound dumb, but do I keep the actual word "recipient" in name=, or do I put in my e-mail user name or something? Also, I am not using my www e-mail, but rather the e-mail from my ISP....does that make a difference? Please help...thanks, Mark

[tclcorp]

P.S. I haven't been using an editor, except for notepad when writing HTML. I do most of my post upload editing on Server Side (after making a "back-up" of course).

[bunltd]

Use the example but insert your e-mail address in the value="" field.

You might want to take a look at Form Elements [w3.org] or some Examples [w3schools.com]

LisaB