Email a form

[jalley06]

Is there a way in Javascript to emulate the "Send Page by Email" in IE7? I would rather have the user click a button on the form to accomplish this than use that feature in IE.

The user will always be using IE 7 and the email client will always be Outlook and the page they are viewing is on our internal company Intranet.

Can someone please help me out? Thanks.

[acoder]

A mailto: usually opens the default mail application on the client.

[jalley06]

A mailto: usually opens the default mail application on the client.

And you are correct, it does but...I want the form to send automatically to one certain email address. I'm afraid if I leave it up to the user then the form won't get emailed.

Any ideas?

[acoder]

It won't be possible with JavaScript, but since you're using IE only, you can use ActiveX. Search for "ActiveXObj ect outlook" for some possible solutions.

[zhyl]

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[gits]

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Alan

i don't know what that should have to do with the problem?

however: another solution which involves serverside scripting could be to send an ajax-call to the server and let the server send the mail ... that would allow you to send the mail without user interaction ...

kind regards

[jalley06]

i don't know what that should have to do with the problem?

however: another solution which involves serverside scripting could be to send an ajax-call to the server and let the server send the mail ... that would allow you to send the mail without user interaction ...

kind regards

Thanks for all your help! I'll start researching this.

[jalley06]

i don't know what that should have to do with the problem?

however: another solution which involves serverside scripting could be to send an ajax-call to the server and let the server send the mail ... that would allow you to send the mail without user interaction ...

kind regards

Would using AJAX allow me to set it up so that the email will be sent with no user interaction? I don't want just a new message to pop up and the user having to click send. I don't trust the user to do that everytime.

Also, I would like the script to either attach the form the user is filling out to the email or copy and paste the form into the email before sending...basic ally do what "Send Page by Email" does in IE 7 but send it automatically.

Is this at all possible?

[acoder]

Would using AJAX allow me to set it up so that the email will be sent with no user interaction?

Yes, it would.

Also, I would like the script to either attach the form the user is filling out to the email or copy and paste the form into the email before sending...basic ally do what "Send Page by Email" does in IE 7 but send it automatically.

Is this at all possible?

Yes, it's possible. If you mean just the form values, that would be relatively easy. If you also mean the actual form, you will have to construct the form and send an HTML email.

Have you made a start on this?

[jalley06]

Yes, it would.
Yes, it's possible. If you mean just the form values, that would be relatively easy. If you also mean the actual form, you will have to construct the form and send an HTML email.

Have you made a start on this?

I haven't had a chance to look into this but will start. I've never used AJAX so this should be interesting.