I just can't connect a form to email :(

[elliot]

Hi all,

I'm really hoping to find a solution to something which is now driving me crazy... I'm not a coder, not close, though have been getting help from a friend to try an implement some code to get a form connecting to an email...
how hard can it be? hopefully not to hard

As it stands I've a form with the following two top lines of code

<form action="/scripts/emailMoo.asp" method="post">

<input name="_recipients" type="hidden" value="purpleapplepie@yahoo.com" />

the file emailMoo.asp is replicating the code from http://www.hosting-support.pipex.net...d/formmail.txt

I've put in the following

referers = Array("bhbgroup.co.uk")
mailComp = "CDOSYS"
smtpServer = "intmail.atlas.pipex.net"
fromAddr = "username_goes_here"

cdoConfig.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "intmail.atlas.pipex.net"
cdoConfig.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25
cdoConfig.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2
cdoConfig.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate") = 1
'You need to edit the next two lines
cdoConfig.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername") = "username_goes_here"
cdoConfig.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword") = "password_goes_here"

I also added to the form the required field of '_recipients' and set it you my email as such:
<input name="_recipients" type="hidden" value="purpleapplepie@yahoo.com" />

though am getting a results

Web Fusion the host say the account has been set up properly and aren't willing to offer any other help

I'd really appriciate any thing you can offer

cheers,
elliot

[Twey]

Your SMTP server should be set to smtp.yahoo.com, methinks.

[elliot]

Hi Twey, the smtp setting were from the host company I'm using webfusion

Am I able to use the one you suggested instead, and how come it's a Yahoo smtp? this is all very foreign to me

thanks

[Twey]

Depends on the address you're using. If you're sending from an @yahoo.com address, use smtp.yahoo.com (although I now notice that that address was for the recipient, not the sender).

At any rate, the SMTP server you were attempting to use (intmail.atlas.pipex.net:25) refuses connections, although the host exists. I suggest you ask them to give you a correct SMTP server.

[elliot]

Thanks Twey, that's helpful to know. I'll contact my host to explain this and see where I get from there.. hopefully all will be resolved

many thanks