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KayGee -> E-mail form results, SMTP server configuration/setup (10/12/2005 15:55:29)

hi everyone, this is my second topic on these forums. i have my personal website running off of my home pc (windows xp professional, IIS 5.1, FPSE 2002) and one of the webpages is a "guestbook/contact me" kinda page. i wanted to have the form results saved to a file as well as e-mailed. now the form results do get saved to a text file, but they don't get e-mailed. i get the usual "user: check the web log" something error. so i have a couple of questions.

1. is there any restriction on the address that the form results (in the form properties dialog box of the webpage) are sent to? (can it be yahoo, gmail, etc.?)

2. have i setup the smtp server correctly?

3. are there any additional configuration steps to be followed in the "Default SMTP Virtual Server" section of IIS?

i appreciate any help from you guys. thanks in advance.

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KayGee -> RE: E-mail form results, SMTP server configuration/setup (10/12/2005 15:57:29)

this is a screenie of the FPSE mail configuration screen.

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rdouglass -> RE: E-mail form results, SMTP server configuration/setup (10/13/2005 10:16:13)

Home PC? Are you on BroadBand? Most broadband / cable / DSL ISP's block Port 25 so you probably couldn't send from your home PC even if you wanted to.

I'd double check with your ISP but I suspect they do. I have heard of sending server email thru ports other than 25 but I've never done it.



KayGee -> RE: E-mail form results, SMTP server configuration/setup (10/13/2005 11:22:17)

thanks rdouglass. that's what i suspected too. i'm running the website off port 8008 because 80 was blocked too. i'll change the port and check if it works. if you could answer my questions though, that would be really awesome. thanks again.



rdouglass -> RE: E-mail form results, SMTP server configuration/setup (10/13/2005 12:47:52)

Your screenshots look good to me. As long as you have the SMTP components installed (in a subsection of Add/Remove Programs), that should be OK.

Again, I think the port blocking is your real issue. Especially if they're blocking Port 80; they're (the ISP) is more likely to block Port 25 (trojan programs try to use Port 25 routinely) than 80 so if 80 is blocked, there's a very good chance 25 is blocked as well.



KayGee -> RE: E-mail form results, SMTP server configuration/setup (10/13/2005 15:15:14)

thanks for your reply rdouglass. so on my guestbook webpage, can i specify any e-mail address in the "Form Properties" dialog box that i want the results to be sent to like yahoo, hotmail, gmail, etc. when the user clicks on "Submit"? thanks for your patience.



rdouglass -> RE: E-mail form results, SMTP server configuration/setup (10/13/2005 15:48:50)

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can i specify any e-mail address in the "Form Properties" dialog box


Correct.



KayGee -> RE: E-mail form results, SMTP server configuration/setup (10/13/2005 18:55:37)

thanks rdouglass. another question i have is, in the "Advanced" dialog box under the "Delivery" tab of the "Default SMTP Virtual Server" dialog box, what should i enter for "Smart Host" and "Fully qualified domain name"? thanks in advance.



rdouglass -> RE: E-mail form results, SMTP server configuration/setup (10/14/2005 9:26:51)

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what should i enter for "Smart Host" and "Fully qualified domain name"?


IIRC the SmartHost is the email server that will act as a relay for your mail to be sent from your server. That *can* be your ISP's mailserver if they allow. Most times you won't have that option unless you have a commercial account with your ISP.

As to the "FQDN", that would be your domain as in "mydomain.com" if you have one. If you don't have a FQDN, you will want access to a SmartHost to send your mail.

This stuff should not be neceesary in that SMTP engine (IIRC anyways) because if you're using the FrontPage extensions and forms to send email, all that should be taken care of by the FP Ext configuration settings.

(Email is really not very easy from a home machine.)



KayGee -> RE: E-mail form results, SMTP server configuration/setup (10/14/2005 10:15:19)

i agree, e-mail is a pain in the butt. i think i'll just stick with getting the form results sent to a text file for now. i think i have everything configured correctly, because i no longer get the "user check log" error, but now when i click on "Submit" on the contcat page, it sits there trying to open another page and then it asks for a username and password. the website admin credentials don't work nor do the username and password for the e-mail address that i want the form results to be sent to work. this is the link :



also i have a domain name and i'm using masked forwarding to point it to my ip address.

rdouglass, thank you so much for all the help so far, i really appreciate it. if you have any more suggestions, they are more than welcome, otherwise this thread can be considered closed.

THANKS AGAIN!!



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