Send form via email

[Jo]

I finally got my forms working ! But when the email arrives in my inbox it
says it's from '(e-mail address removed)'. (velocitynet is my host).
I want it to come from my domain email address! Is there anyway I can do
this? My host says its about scripting...so not there thing.

 

[DavidF]

Sorry, you can't change the way the form works in Publisher. I don't see the
email address as really that important, as you will get the form users email
in the form. Just be glad that you got the form and HTTP uploading down.

DavidF

 

[Jo]

Yes...but this is for a business site. And the online enquiry emails won't
be sent to my account, they will be sent to my clients inboxes. So i'd
prefer they appear to come from my business (not my hosts).

 

[DavidF]

I don't have a good answer for you. I have a test page with a form on it on
my site, and it uses (e-mail address removed) as the sender email
address. The only difference is the use of postmaster vs. anonymous, which
your webhost might be able to change, but your host would have to help you
with that. There is no way to adjust it in Publisher that I know of.

You might also look to your host for a different form program. Look under
the FAQs. Most hosts provide one that you can use instead of the built-in
Publisher one.

Review this article again: Publisher web publication forms 101:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/archive/2006/01/07/80564.aspx

Perhaps it would be better if you directed the email to your account, and
then forwarded to your clients. That way the email will be your email
account as you prefer, and you will be able to better manage and monitor the
form responses. I know that isn't your preferred work flow, but....

Thanks again for posting the centering code. If it works out as well as it
sounds, there are going to be a lot of people very appreciative.

DavidF

 

[Mike Koewler]

David,

I've been extremely busy - didn't catch up until last night so have
missed a lot of message. If a business form is very important to have
the Subject, etc., be other than what a Pub Wizard allows, why not look
at an e-mail program, such as Soupermail? It's free, not hard to set up
and fairly secure.

Mike

 

[DavidF]

Mike,

What's the matter...did you get a mouth full of the wrong peppers? <g>

If you used email, wouldn't that result in the return address be from the
person that clicks the link rather than the OP's business? I don't know, but
perhaps you are right.

DavidF

 

[Mike Koewler]

David,

I should have use Mail Form program rather than e-mail. Wish I could
blame it on the peppers, but they only have four leaves - at the max.

I tried a form I had done with Soupermail and the Subject was returned
as Participation (as I had named it) and the submitter as my e-mail address.

My demise was due to a little radiator hose, a towing company that was
undermanned and completely inept parts stores. Linda went to get the
parts so I could work on my paper. The stores didn't have the exact part
in stock, so they sold here something that "will work." Well, they
didn't. What should have been a 15-minute job ended up taking six hours.

As far as the garden grows, I want you to know - I have more than
peppers. Just waiting to stick their head through the soil are a couple
of different types of tomatoes as well as an eggplant. On order (and
will be shipped once the temps get above freezing) are red and blue seed
potatoes, which I will start indoors and will not move outside until May
- maybe later. I plan on growing them in straw, adding a layer each time
the plant gets six inches tall. I want to fix a Patriotic (Red, White
and Blue) potato salad and American Fries by the Fourth of July.

I also doing my part to reduce the amount of stuff in landfills, at
least for the time being. I'm going to grow potatoes in tires. The idea
is to harvest more than 120 pounds of potatoes from a space that might
have produced 35 pounds.

So what are you doing this winter????!!!!

Mike

 

[DavidF]

Hi again,

It does sound like Soupermail, or some other more cusomizable form program
would work. You can use other programs with the form controls in Publisher.
Its the installing on the server that makes it tricky.

I expected you to join in on a thread you apparently missed while you were
busy. Jo posted the code to center a 2003 and 2007 web page, and Spike
proposed a way to use Replace in Files to automate the process, much as Don
has done with 2002 and older. I haven't had time to fully test it all, but
Jo's code seems to work well if you put in the actual pixel width of the
page. My first couple tests with Spikes process suggest that the string of
code he "finds" to "replace" with Replace in Files, is not universal, but I
am not sure of that. I suspect that what is going to work is that each user
will have to copy the string of code that is part of the first <body> tag
string...or something like that. If you have the time take a look at it:

Software to assist centre pages? 1/14 Jo

You seem to be like me...if I try to fix something mechanical, myself, to
save a dollar, it always ends up costing me more than if I had someone else
do it for me to begin with.

You gave me a good laugh when you talked about raising potatoes in tires. I
tried that once about a zillion years ago when I lived back in the midwest.
It was a disaster...just a couple worthless potatoes, and about two dozen
old tires that I had to pay to get rid of. I think my mistake was using soil
instead of layers of straw.

DavidF

 

[Mike Koewler]

David,

I read the thread and, at least in theory, it should work. If I get some
time this week, I'll see what results I get.

Did you use good seed potatoes when you tried? Using straw vs. dirt
shouldn't make any difference. Actually, I'll probably use potting soil,
straw and dirt this summer, at least in one stack.

I use to do a lot of repairs myself, back when I had time. Once, an
alternator needed replaced. I took it to a very good, ASE certified
mechanic who tried for two days to get it to work and couldn't. So one
Saturday night, I fixed it. Not that I was better than him - I recalled
that about 10 years earlier, it had gone back and the shop I had it
fixed at had to re-wire part of the car so the one he had in stock would
work. Once I read the wiring diagram, it was a piece of cake to put
together correctly.

If nothing else, I've always been a handyman, maybe because we grew up
poor and dad didn't always have the money to get things fixed. I've
wired a house from the pole where the company drops the wire to every
outlet and switch, put in all the plumbing and waste systems, rebuilt
rooms from the studding to finished walls, installed windows and doors,
poured concrete - the whole gamut.

Okay, I'll quit breaking my arm patting myself on the back!

Mike