FP98: How to Set up FrontPage 98 Forms for E-mail

• Microsoft FrontPage 98 for Windows

SUMMARY

Microsoft FrontPage 98 supports sending form results in e-mail. To accomplish this, you must configure your form to send results to e-mail and configure the FrontPage Server Extensions to deliver the e-mail to an e- mail transport. This article describes how to set up FrontPage 98 forms for e-mail.

MORE INFORMATION

Defining Your Form

1. In FrontPage Editor, 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. On the Windows Start menu, point to Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Notepad.



2. On the File menu, click Open.



3. Select the Frontpg.ini file and then click Open.
   
   This file is typically located in the \Windows or \Winnt folder.



4. To configure your e-mail transport, locate the [FrontPage 3.0] section and then enter the parameter you want. When you do this, use the following syntax.
   
   NOTE: For a list of the supported parameters, please see the "Parameters" section of this article.
   
   Syntax for Windows NT Server:

   Parameter=value

   Syntax for UNIX is:

   Parameter:value

   This should be set in the Wexxxx.cnf configuration file where x stands for the TCP/IP port on which the Web server is running, for example:

   /usr/local/frontpage




5. Save and close the file.



6. Stop and then restart the Web server.

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, 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 follow the instructions at "Setting Up Your E-Mail Transport" in the \SERK\enu\Admin.htm file on the FrontPage CD-ROM.

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 FrontPage 98 Server Extensions Resource Kit (SERK) located in the \Serk folder on your FrontPage 98 compact disc.

Additional query words: 98, E-mail mail form

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Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbhowto 

Last Reviewed: July 23, 1999