Setting up Email Action

grabbing names for a list

[webby]

I'm trying to set up an action to grab peoples emails for future newsletter. I just want this form to go to and email but it's sending the html code and I want just the basic info to send. here's my code.. can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

<td><form name="form1" method="post" action="mailto:[e-mail]">
<table width="603" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#A40812">
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<td colspan="4"><div align="center">
<p><strong>Signup for our Mailing List<br>
</strong><span style="color: #A40812">*</span><span class="style21"> required </span></p>
</div></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<td width="73"><div align="right" class="style20">First name:</div></td>
<td width="200"><input name="firstname" type="text" id="firstname"></td>
<td width="70"><div align="right"><span class="style20">Last name:</span></div></td>
<td width="210"><input name="lastname" type="text" id="lastname"></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<td><div align="right">
<div align="right" class="style20">Email <font color="#FF0000">*</font>:</div>
</div></td>
<td colspan="3"><input name="email" type="text" id="email"></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<td valign="top"><div align="right" class="style20">Country:</div></td>
<td colspan="3" valign="top"><span class="style20">
<select name="country" id="country">
<option value="">Please select an option...</option>
<option value="1">UNITED STATES</option>
<option value="2">CANADA</option>
<option value="3">UNITED KINGDOM</option>
<option value="223">ZAMBIA</option>
<option value="224">ZIMBABWE</option>
</select>
</span> </td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<td valign="top"><div align="right" class="style20">Mailing Add:</div></td>
<td colspan="3" valign="top"><input name="address" type="text" id="address"></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<td><div align="right" class="style20"><span class="reportContent">Zip:</span></div></td>
<td colspan="3"><span class="style11 style9 reportContent"><strong>
<input name="zip" type="text" id="zip" size="5" maxlength="5" />
</strong></span></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<td><div align="right" class="style20">City:</div></td>
<td colspan="3"><input name="city" type="text" id="city" size="20" /></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<td><div align="right" class="style20">Myspace Url: </div></td>
<td colspan="3"><span class="style20">http://www.myspace.com/
<input name="myspace_url" type="text" id="myspace_url" size="20">
</span></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<td valign="top"><div align="right" class="style20">Email Format: </div></td>
<td colspan="3" valign="top" class="style11 style9 reportContent"><strong>
<input name="format" type="radio" value="text" />
<span class="style22"> Text</span><br />
<span class="style22">
<input name="format" type="radio" value="html" />
HTML </span></strong></td>
</tr>

[edited by: jatar_k at 3:40 pm (utc) on Oct. 15, 2008]
[edit reason] removed email address and trimmed countries [/edit]

[phranque]

i'm not sure what you mean by "it's sending the html code".
try using this form tag attribute:
<form name="form1" method="post" action="mailto:[e-mail]" ENCTYPE="text/plain">