Monte Goulding wrote/ schreef:
> My question was based on Monte logic which is a bit like fuzzy logic but
> more fluffy. Knowing that you can send a post message to a CGI script with
> information to then be sent on in an email and also knowing that you can
> write CGI in mc then I put 2 and 2 together and come up with 6 (It could be
> done in one big script). As I said this is a learning process for me. ;-)
Do you mean you want to write a CGI script for the server and a MC stack for
the client?
I don't have much experience with CGI, but you use the post command in MC to
post data to it.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sjoerd Op 't Land
> Sent: Thursday, 11 January 2001 11:16 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Form to mail
>
>
> Monte Goulding wrote/ schreef:
>
>> Thanks David it's going to take me a while to get my head around this
> stuff.
>> Has anyone done this?
> I don't quite understand your question before because you have to use a
> server always. There are two ways (with some variants) to send e-mail from
> within MetaCard
>
> * Via a cgi (script) server -- you don't need an account for this one
> + From within MetaCard -- use a script like 1 (see below)
> * Via a smtp server -- you need an account for this one
> + Via the standard e-mail client (like outlook)
> -- use script 2 (see below)
> + From within MetaCard -- andu made a nice one for this
> -- see http://www.cloud9.net/~undo
>
> Is this what do you want?
> Regards,
> Sjoerd
>
> ========== Script Nº 1 ==========
> post "recipient_a=" & urlEncode(field "recipient_a") & "&destnumber=" &
> urlEncode(field "destnumber") & "&subject=" & urlEncode(field "subject") &
> "&originator_email=" & urlEncode(field "originator_email") & "&body_text=" &
> urlEncode(field "body_text") to url "http://cgi.tpc.int/cgi-bin/tpcfax.pl"
> if it contains "Your message has been sent by email" then
> answer "Message sent."
> else
> answer warning "Er is een fout opgetreden bij het verzenden."
> end if
> ========== Script Nº 2 ==========
> put "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" into tUrl
> if platform() is "MacOS" then send tUrl to program "Finder" with
> "GURLGURL"
> else launch tUrl with (word 1 to -2 of
> queryRegistry("hkey_local_machine\software\classes\mailto\shell\open\command
> \"))
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