Email forms

[charish2k1]

For those that use GeoCities and its features, first off, most likely you'll know what I'm talking about. I wanna move site to Brinkster for hosting, but I have a contact page on my GeoCities site that I experimented with. I copied and pasted the coding into a new Brinkster .html file and I tried sending an email with it and it said something like, "Incorrect request in userForm." Is there a way around this to make the form work in Brinkster since it's a Geocities form, or is there a way to make a Brinkster form? I know it seems kind of a dumb question asking if something from one host'll work on another, but I just wanna be safe. For the future, thanks to those who help on this.

[PeOfEo]

#1 brinkster will not let you send email from their smtp, they do not host email unless you are a premium custumer. #2 You are not going to be able to call up geocities php or cgi scripts remotely, they have safeguards against this. #3 Brinkster hosts asp and asp.net so even if you tried to use some php based mail system (even though geocities doesnt let you actually have php files you can modify or anyhting like that) brinkster would have a cow about it. Basically you are not going to send email from brinkster unless you use a 3rd party form handleing service or host your forms on another host.

[HackerX]

I had a question sorta like this in the JS forum.

I read some stuff and it said I needed a Unix or Linux host and I dont think brinkster is one. it also says I need a cgi-bin, I tried to create a folder called that on my brinkster account and that didnt work either, so I too am in the process of searching for free host that works with cgi script. also If Geocities helped you make it then it can probably only be used from a Geocities site, look at my topic in the JS forum for some links to email form cgi scripts, I dont understand it but you might.

[PeOfEo]

You can send email from a windows host. What do you think asp and asp.net run off of? The problem is that general users cannot access an smtp on brinkster. Brinkster is running windows 2000 servers with asp.net 1.0 and asp classic etc.

[HackerX]

can you tell me either a free unix/linux server or another way to send email based on a form without the mailto code or what I was trying to do with cgi, or do you know another way with cgi?

[PeOfEo]

Just find a host that has an smtp and is free. You might look into www.freewebs.com I don't know if they have an smtp but they are free php cgi hosting.

[HackerX]

free webs doesnt seem to be what Im looking for as they wont let me use forms!

http://www.freewebs.com/zonewebdesign/formindex.htm

[PeOfEo]

just hunt around for a php/cgi host that gives you smtp access.