[Javascript] form mail question - newbie level

[Mike Dougherty]

After reading the progress of this thread, I want to ask: why email to you?

   Aside from getting out of a technical implementation issue, I would think there may be a better 
solution available.  Of course i don't know what you do with this information once it lands in 
your inbox, but i'm wondering if your customer wouldn't be equally served by a list of contacts 
they can download periodically?

   The server-side form handler could append the data to a fixed-format (CSV?) text file named 
according to some convention (date stamped?) which could be downloaded by the appropriately 
authorized FTP client.  These files could be manually appended to a local archive then removed 
from the server.  (OR: In our environment, we would use a (microsoft SQL2000) DTS package to 
automatically FTP the file and store it in the database for later use in queries.)

   If this business starts making some money, they might want to consider a $10+ a month web host 
that allows email or perhaps offers access to a database engine.  My $0.02: remind your business 
customer not to be too "cheap" on their website/hosting just to save a few bucks per month.  If a 
modest site generates just one sale per month, it (probably) will have paid for itself.
   

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:01:33 -0400
  John Neil <jneil at victoricawines.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am putting together a simple commercial site for a relative (www.victoricawines.com).
>
>I want to have a 'contact' page where the viewer enters their personal details etc, hits submit, 
>and the data entered is sent to me by email. (for the meantime I have used a third-party routing 
>which unfortunately includes a 'security' code in order to avoid bots).
>
>I know that this can be done with cgi (such as formmail) but this account does not include cgi 
>support.
>
>Is there a way to email the contents entered into a form (text as well as selections from 
>drop-down lists, radio buttons etc) without using cgi?
>
>TIA
>
>John
>
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