Processing the Form with the JMail EMail Component

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Processing the Form with the JMail EMail Component

Sunday, September 09, 2007

Earlier I showed you how to create a form with XHTML and lay it out with CSS. And later I will show you how to use Expression Web and ASP.NET to create and process the form.

The JMail ASP EMail Component

This is something that I have been using for a very long time actually. I stopped using Frontpage Server Extensions (FPSE) to process my forms because FPSE allow users (spam bots) to see your email address. And this can cause them to spider your site, get your email address, and sell it to thousands of companies unfortunately.

With the JMail ASP EMail component, your email address is hidden from the spammers. It is on the action page and processed on the server. When that page is rendered in the browser, your email address is never seen. You can download the text example (Microsoft Internet Users: Right Click and download TXT file*) and see a webcast of how easy it is to add this to your website.

Adding a Field

Adding a field was pretty easy on the creating a form page, and it is pretty easy on the JMail processing page (copy and paste will become your best friend). Basically you will be adding the following lines to your confirm.asp page:

Dim Telephonename, Telephone

Telephonename = "Telephone: "

Telephone = Request.Form("Telephone")

strbody=strbody & Telephonename & Telephone & vbcrlf

I would make sure to add the above code near the other similar code. You can see where I have added it in the webcast.

If you have problems with the code, you can ask in the Expression-FrontPage forum or the International Web Developer's Network.

*There is an option in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0: Go to Tools - Internet Options - Security - Custom Level called open files based on content, not file extension. If this is disabled then it correctly opens the text file for viewing. You can change the setting or leave as is. (I would just right click on the TXT file and say Save As.)