Email Client

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Graham Linton

I am trying to set up FP to call a users email client (Outlook Express for
instance) whenever a email address is clicked on. Thee are anticipated to be
in excess of 500, so I do not want to type these in individually.

tks


GL
 
Putting email addresses on a web page is asking for that address to be
spammed, unless the address is encoded in some way - and some spambots
can break some encoding methods.

Not every browser is associated with an email client, so users with this
set up will fail to open an email client.
Users who use webmail will also be unable to send emails.

Your best solution is a database application, where aliases are shown on
the form page and custom script interrogates the database to find the
real email address. Then use the servers SMTP server to send the mail.
Once the database is set up, the form page can be populated with the
aliases from the database.
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Thank you for your reply.

I only know one database product which is MS Access as it integrates OK with
Frontpage. The email addresses in this database already exist on another web
page which looks very similar to the one I am trying to get going.

Can I persevere with FP in some way.

thanks
 
FrontPage supports Access on Windows servers. There is no reason why
you should not procede as I outlined with FrontPage provided you are
hosted on a Windows server. Use asp or asp.NET (if the host supports
it) as the scripting language.

Take a look at the Database Results Wizard, and Database Interface
Wizard (in FP2002/2003, for online editing the database)

I would not like to own one of those email addresses on the other web
page - the spam must be horrendous.
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Thanks again. The page I am working with is the results_page.asp from the
Database Interface Wizard. When it is called by the browser, all the names
and addreses are tabulated according to the wizard layout, but the email
client is not when clicked on.

Am I in the ballpark, here



GL
 
I am trying to set up FP to call a users email client (Outlook Express for
instance) whenever a email address is clicked on.
Click to expand...

Just FYI (since I don't think it's been mentioned) you don't need to do
anything special to cause an email link to call the user's email client. A
garden-variety email link will do this.

<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>

The warnings about spam are for real, though. I personally wouldn't consider
allowing any email address of mine (which I don't want to have to throw away
because it's destroyed by spam) to be posted on any web site.
 
The OP is displaying the email addresses via a DRW, so it is only displaying
as text, not as a hyperling. His DRW would need to be modified to display
the data as a hyperlink

I will also state that I am in full agreement with the rest: Don't Post
Email Addresses Online!
 
Mike Mueller said:
The OP is displaying the email addresses via a DRW, so it is only
displaying as text, not as a hyperling. His DRW would need to be modified
to display the data as a hyperlink
Click to expand...

Ok - I was just showing how that is done, since that's what he asked. :-)
 
I have visited there and tried their suggestions which do not work either.
Further internet searches have also proved elusive as well
 
Instead of calling the email clinet, the email address is substituted for an
URL which it obviously cannot find.



Graham
 
Hi Graham:
There are two sets of instructions on that page for making fields clickable;
one is for email and one is for hyperlinks. Maybe you used the wrong one?

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Is your email client set-up properly? For link to work correctly, the
email client must be set-up so that it opens without an error or as a
URL in the browser if using non-IE browsers. Netscape has the habit of
opening the links as URL and therefore an error.
 
This is what appears on the address line when you click the email address:
http://graham/[email protected]
where Graham is my local computer, and the email address is one of mine:

This is what appears after you enter the edit hyperlink screen, insert the
email field from the list of fields

mailto:'%3c%25=FP_FieldLink(fp_rs,%22Email%20Address%22)%25%3e'

Graham


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Add the code in HTML/Code View, not via the hyperlink/email insert dialog.

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