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Hello,

I wondered if anyone can help me with the form I have created. I used a free form builder, emailmeform.com, and copy and pasted the code into my existing html. The form they create for you goes through their server and is then emailed to you, the customer. Well, I tried to modify the code so that the form would just be sent directly from our site to my email without emailmeform being the middleman, but my code did not work.

I want the form info to go directly from our site to my email account, which is located on my host’s server, and also will be encrypted through SSL provided by my host. I have been ensured by my host that this will keep sensitive information secure.

Anyway, here’s the page: [URL=”http://thefatsnook.com/testgc.html”]http://thefatsnook.com/testgc.html[/URL]

If anyone could offer me advice on what I am doing wrong, I would be much obliged! I am new to creating and using forms. Thank you!

CD

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@mfrank410Sep 12.2011 — Give this article a read. I highly recommend not using mailto as the form action. This article outlines the reasons why its bad and may not work.

http://apptools.com/rants/mailto.php

At the bottom of the article it as a couple links to where you can get your hands on a mail script. You want your server to send the email out, mailto forces the clients email application open to send the form data, which I don't think is what you want to happen.

Let me know if you have any other questions after reading that article.
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