Website Postcards (E-cards) question?

[UTGLLC]

I need to offer postcards for our company website that will allow the visitor to either send an electronic postcard to someone (example being like Blue Mountain cards) where the recipient can view the card online by clicking the link received in their E-mail notification. I also need this program to maintain a database of the E-mail addresses of the sender (with an opt in option, of course). Trick is this. Need this to run on a Windows server. No sendmail option.

Does anyone have any experience with this and could you recommend a program that would do this and is easily customizable? It does not have to be a free program.

[PeOfEo]

this is done with server side languages my friend you will need to learn one. Figure out which you want to use. ASP or ASP.NET. Those are the two microsoft server side languages that are going to work on windows server without installing aditional stuff. I would use asp.net because its the newer technolgy (also I know it already :)). What it is going to do is connect to your hosts smtp (email) server (you should have it on windows server) and send it based on the users request.

[UTGLLC]

Agreed. But unfortunately, I need to have this up before the time it would take for me to learn the language. I have seen a few programs that use .ASP and that do work with the SMTP server, I was just hoping someone may have had some experience in this field and maybe with a pre-packaged solution.

[IrDa]

these might interest you.

http://www.sakki.net/egreetings.asp
http://www.myscript.co.il/myscript/index.asp
http://www.aspgeeks.com/software/gcards/details.asp
http://www.greetingcardpro.com/
http://www.aspstarterkits.com/

Some are free, some are paid. greetingcardpro and aspstarterkits seems very nice.

[PeOfEo]

if you know vb then you know asp.net just get a lil pamphlet on sql statments you will be fine.