I had a similar problem, the work around I employed was to do the email at a later 
date from a method I ran from the server.  I imagine it would not be too much more 
difficult to have a process running in the background that checked for new records and 
then went about sending the emails

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On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 05:46AM, billmccarvell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>After pressing submit button immediately move to the next page or an 
>interim page, so that user feels like something is happening in the 
>background and not stalled.  (without loosing the form variables)
>
>The specific example is, someone fills out a comment page, they press 
>submit. I have Active4D move the user to a thankyou.a4d page that then 
>writes the content to a table and sends an email to my client, the user 
>and bcc to myself.
>
>The time it takes to move from pressing the submit button to the 
>thankyou.a4d page is long (in internet time).
>
>Is there a way to move the user (immediately) to a (a) blank page, then 
>to the thankyou.a4d page after the processing is done, or (b) blank 
>page with the words 'processing...' written on it or.... (whatever 
>gives the user the impression that things are being done and not 
>stalled). Is there a generic way to do this so that I could use the 
>technique every time there might be a delay between pressing the button 
>and bring back the response? The database is uncompiled if that makes a 
>difference. I hope this makes sense...
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bill McCarvell
>
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