How do I get a form to submit throught the website I am building to the yahoo mail account?

Question

I am building a website for a client for my IT class. We have created a questbook section in which their is a form customers can fill out. But we want the information to be submited to our clients yahoo email once the customer presses submit on the page. How would I go about making this happen? or rather what would be the HTML code for this action?

Answer 1

There are two ways to do this.

1) In the action attribute in your HTML form tag, you use mailto:[e-mail], where [e-mail] would be the actual email address. If you do it this way, the email that your client receive would not in a very user-friendly way though.

2) You can create some kind of server script to handle the email. You can write it in Perl script, PHP, ASP, ASP .NET, JSP, ColdFusion, ...etc. You use these server side programming languages to capture the information on the form and format the mail in a user-friendly way. If you were to do it this way, the programming language that you use would depend on your web hosting company. The most common ones are ASP, ASP .NET, and Perl. You will need to check with your web hosting company to see what they support.


By the way, I am a web developer by trade. If you have further questions, please feel free to contact me.

Answer 2

you could attempt here, despite the fact that it may no longer artwork for all clientele. you're fairly greater useful off posting to a CGI or Servlet.