Using Mailto when email cleint is not installed on

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  15 years ago

  by Lightent

  Theodore S. D. Hans

  Denver, CO - USA, United States

  Joined 17 years ago

  Hello all!  
  

  
  I'm having a slight problem.  I have a simple form posted on a web page (See http://cofu.org/contacts.html) as follows:
  

  
  METHOD="POST" ACTION="mailto:[email protected]?subject=ContactUs Form Submission"
  

  
  This works EXTREMELY well to mail the contents of the form semi-transparently to Dale when the user clicks on the SUBMIT button via the users currently installed default email client.  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  My dilemma is this:  
  

  
  When a user does not have an email client installed, i.e. Outlook or Outlook Express, they get errors and no email is sent.  Obviously this is because of the lack of email client.  
  

  
  Does anyone know of an easy way, preferrably using HTML, to send form contents via email...transparently...even when there is no email client available?
  

  
  Thanks!
  Ted
  

  
  

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