The contact form can be static. But you would need to post it to the asp page so that the contact form details can be processed and emailed to your client.

Most simple contact forms I see, take the posted information and do a simple plan text email. To avoid problems with injection attacks and what not. Also never CC or BCC the submitter of the contact form. This is often used as spam gateways for spammers if you do.

Sounds like you're after the easy route?

You can submit to an email address which means that you don't have to use ASP at all.

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<FORM Action="mailto:(emailaddress)?Subject=Test_Post" METHOD="POST">
mailto: protocol test:
<Br>Subject:
<INPUT name="Subject" value="Test Subject">
<Br>Body:&#xa0;
<TEXTAREA name="Body">
kfdskfdksfkds
</TEXTAREA>
<BR>
<INPUT type="submit" value="Submit">
</FORM>
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thanks for the replies,
giggle does that script open up the user's default mail client such as outlook or thunderbird ect.. the problem is that alot of people use gmail or other similar and it may not
work for them. since i am not to familiar with asp is there anything like some perl or cgi scripts I can use? like i said they have asp pages & static html and I would like to add a simple contact form on the html pages.

Hi dawg

Yes, it will open up whatever email client they're using. Probably won't work for GMail/Hotmail etc.

The problem with using ASP for email (as far as I know) is that you must have ASPEmail or some other software installed on your server to handle sending the emails via ASP.

Good luck.

do you mean something like CDOSYS or CDONTS maybe?

I would NEVER put an email address in a form! It's absolutely inviting spam from the web site AND will be added to every spam database in the world. Site scrapers just love email addresses on web pages.

Send the form to an ASP page that generates a form that sends you the details via email - hiding the email address in that way means you only get spam from form spammers, not from the world.

In practice I almost never put an email address anywhere on a web site. When I have to because the customer demands it I obscure it to prevent scrapers reading it; sometimes the address is linked to pop up in an email client, other times it's not.

You can use CDO if that's all the web hosting company provide. There is quite a bit of info on the web about it.