FP2000: How to Set up FrontPage 2000 Forms for E-mail

• Microsoft FrontPage 2000

SUMMARY

Microsoft FrontPage 2000 supports sending form results in e-mail. To accomplish this, you must configure your form to send results to e-mail and the FrontPage Server Extensions to deliver the e-mail to an e-mail transport. This article describes how to set up FrontPage 2000 forms for e-mail.

MORE INFORMATION

Defining Your Form

1. In Microsoft FrontPage, open the page, right-click the form (inside the dash border), and then click Form Properties on the menu that appears.



2. In the E-mail Address box, type your e-mail address.



3. Click OK.



4. Save the form by clicking Save on the File menu.

Setting up Your E-mail Transport

1. In Windows Explorer, open the Microsoft Management Console.
   
   This file is located at:
   
   C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\40\bin\fpmmc.msc



2. In the Microsoft Management Console, expand the FrontPage Server Extensions tree by clicking the plus sign.



3. Right-click the folder with your machine name and then click properties.



4. On the Server Extensions tab click the Settings button in the Options section.



5. Enter the parameter you want to configure your email transport.



6. Click OK twice.



7. Exit the Microsoft Management Console by clicking the Exit on the Console menu.

Parameters

• SMTPHost
  
  This parameter should be set to the name or IP address of a host running an SMTP server or daemon, such as SendMail on UNIX. When a user submits a form with results that are to be sent via e-mail, the FrontPage Server Extensions connect to the SMTP server to deliver the mail. By default, FrontPage assumes the server is listening to port 25 (the standard for SMTP) but you can override this by appending the port number to the name. The name and port number are separated by a colon, like this:
  

  name:xx

  where xx represents the port number.
  
  The following are examples of a parameter=value setting:
  

  SMTPHost=mail.example.microsoft.com
  SMTPHost=127.0.0.1

  The following is an example of a parameter:value setting:
  

  SMTPHost=test:1000




• SendMailCommand
  
  This parameter should be set to the name of a program on the server computer to which e-mail should be piped. Typically, this is SendMail on UNIX, but it could be any program. When the FrontPage Server Extensions receive a form processed as an e-mail message, the Server Extensions invoke the command, replacing all occurrences of "%r" with the recipient of the mail. The per cent sign character followed by any other character is replaced by the recipient's e-mail address. The mail message is passed to the command as standard input. If both SendMailCommand and SMTPHost are set, SendMailCommand takes priority.
  
  Following is an example of the SendMailCommand parameter:
  

  SendmailCommand:/usr/lib/sendmail %r

  NOTE: Sometimes it may be necessary to add the MailSend parameter. Some mail servers have filters that block mail by an unknown account, that is, the account is not a valid email account on the server.



• MailSender
  
  This parameter should be set to the sender's user name. Specifically, it is used as the argument for the "SEND FROM:" command in SMTP. The default for SMTP is "user@host" (without the quotation marks), where "user" is the current user account and "host" is the current host name.



• MailCharSet
  
  This parameter can be used to override the character set attribute of the content-type header.



• MailEncoding
  
  This parameter can be used to override the content transfer encoding attribute of the content-type header.

Possible Error Messages

FrontPage Error.

User: Please report details to this site's webmaster. Webmaster: Please see the server's application event log for more details.

The FrontPage Server Extensions have not been configured to send e-mail. Please direct your system administrator or Internet Service Provider to the instructions in 'Setting Up Your E-mail Options on Windows' or 'Setting up Email options on UNIX' in the Server Extensions Resource Kit. If you do not have the Server Extensions Resource Kit, you can find it at http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/wpp/serk.

Would you like to remove the e-mail recipient? (Yes or No)

http://WebServerURL/YourSubWeb/formtoemail2.htm

http://WebServerURL/YourSubWeb /_vti_bin/shtml.exe/formtoemail2.htm.

http://WebServerURL/YourSubWeb /_vti_bin/shtml.dll/formtoemail2.htm.

REFERENCES

For more information about the FrontPage Server Extensions see the Server Extensions Resource Kit (SERK)at:

http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/wpp/serk

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Last Reviewed: July 15, 1999