my thining is that an email from a form is almost a waste of time. why not just have them email it without using the web form? it can still be done from the form, but forms have their best benefit when the data being entered is goin to be automagically processed by something, and usueally stored in a database. anyway, enough of my opinion..:) Yes, the 6.1 boxed set contains everything you need. (the eval prolly does too, but i've never used an eval CD, so i cant swear to it.) to do a standard, basic form-to-email, nothing special is required. it is done entirely in html, using the normal forms stuff. There should be examples on any beginning web-cgi sites. if you want to get wicked with it, can use something like PHP to dress up the data into someting thats easy to import into your favorite software. could also pump it into a database.. anyway...yes..:) -- ======================================================================== Rocky McGaugh Atipa Linux Solutions Linux Systems Engineer www.atipa.com rocky@smluc.org rmcgaugh@atipa.com ======================================================================== On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 bowman@buffnet.net wrote:
My wife and I volunteer for an organization which transports surplus food from suburban locations (such as supermarkets) to shelters and food pantries in the inner city (Buffalo, NY area). These shelters feed homeless individuals and the working poor. Health laws require we keep records of what we transport. This and other requirements generate considerable paperwork and expensive mailings. As many of our members are connected to the internet, I was thinking of creating a form in html format which could filled in using a web browser, and then e-mailed. Our organization does not have a web site.
Question 1: Is the html - e-mail solution appropriate under these circumstances? If not, what is? Question 2: If appropriate, is their a package in the SuSE 6.1 distro I can use to make html forms that can be filled in with Netscape or Windows IE? Adobe is very expensive.
Thanks for your help.
Charles L. Bowman
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