I have a form which I would like to post the data and send it as an email. Is it possible to post that email without Asp or Php or CGI? Thanks just like to know Thanks alot.
Emails are sent through at the server's end. Things like ASP and PHP send the mail through the server and then output the HTML to the client's broswer. The only way to send mail using HTML is on the client-side using mailto: which send mail through the client's email account (if they have one set up).
you can use a service that allows you to post the information to an external server and from there they get processed and sent to your email. I think http://allforms.mailjol.net/ provides that service for free. Daniel
A few years back I used a client-side Java Script to do this. (Definitely not the best way to do this, but it worked). The form is still live here if you want to snag the code. http://www.tfcrecycling.com/wasteaudit.htm Cheers!
You can actually send an email from pure html like this: <form method="post" action="mailto:email@example.com" enctype="text/plain"> put fields you want here </form> The page mentioned by rickvidallon uses this html too, along with some javascript for validation etc. While it looks pretty appealing at first sight it has many disadvantages: The visitor needs to have an email program they actually have an active email account setup in. The visitor gets a big warning message about the fact that the form will be submitted by email, their email address will be revealed to the receiver etc. Your email address will be visible to anyone visiting the site, including spambots. And there are sure to be more disadvantages. So I'd suggest to use a serverside form, or if you can't do that now to get a better host first
I tried this method before but I got a warning from my browser and I decided it would give a bad signal to the users. So I decided to scrap it, anyhow I decided to use server side methods for now. Thanks for the help guys.