sidrick Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 Afternoon geeks, I work as part of a small IT department supporting approximately 500 users at 12 sites. We get a lot of request in via e-mail for, for example, new starts. These will be along the lines of: 'Bill Murray starts at Dundee BMW tomorrow, please set him up with e-mail, progress, etc etc etc'. For me this etc etc boils my pee, as we don't know what these goons need to do their jobs, and this leads to them coming back to you about 3 times with additional access and information. I want to create an online (our intranet) form that has mandatory fields that the users fill in and it e-mails the contents to us. Not a problem, I've done this a few times before. However, the issue is that the 'action="mailto:sidrick@hero.co.uk"' command looks to send from the local default e-mail client. Not usually a problem, but we generally use mdaemon webmail and most machines here do not have Outlook/Office installed nor configured. As such, there is no local mail client to send the form from on most PCs, rendering the form useless. What I need to know is the code (form is HTML and Javascript), or where to get the code, to send the e-mail from the hosting server's SMTP services once they've been configured. Does anyone (stu, Stoo) know, or can they point me in the right direction? n.b. knightrider and 2f2f, neither of you will know, so there's no need to comment. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoo2000 Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Ideally you'd want to know what system you were using on your Intranet, the web server used for that should have a mail server setup (even if it's just SMTP), once you know what system/language you are using, you can then look at what's required in the server side language. Catch me on MSN if you want.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Do you have an intranet, or internal company website? If so, this is probably the place to start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidrick Posted November 20, 2009 Author Share Posted November 20, 2009 Do you have an intranet, or internal company website? If so, this is probably the place to start. What? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoo2000 Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 What system do you use/how does your 'Intranet' work ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidrick Posted November 20, 2009 Author Share Posted November 20, 2009 Basic 2003 server with IIS enabled allowing users within the company to access the pages within the internetpub(or whatever) folder on that machine via HTTP. Not really sure exactly what you want/need to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoo2000 Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Sounds like you need a decent system to be honest But to do the serverside email processing you'd probably need to use ASP unless you installed PHP or used another programming language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 Is IIS actually hosting a site on that server? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidrick Posted November 21, 2009 Author Share Posted November 21, 2009 Is IIS actually hosting a site on that server? Not sure how you mean, but users can open IE and go to http://intranet IP/page_name.html and view a page, so I'd say yes. We're not making much progress here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoo2000 Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 We need to determine what platform you're using to suggest a server side language that can do what you are after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted November 21, 2009 Share Posted November 21, 2009 If the server is running the SMTP service in IIS, then you can simply add any old form mail script that uses CDONTS to the server. Check the ASP section of hotscripts.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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