Dreamweaver CS4 - emailing a submitted Form

I am a novice at websites - and moreso with Dreamweaver!
I have finally designed a simple form with a SUBMIT button. I am trying to have the user submit the form to my email address. In the "Action" box, I have entered the following : mailto:[email protected] .
On hitting the SUBMIT button, Outlook Express opens and opens a "New Message" - with no sign of the Form!
Please help !!
Roy

As you have discovered, "mailto" is a command that opens the default email application on your computer.
The way to get someone to fill out a form to send mail to your email account is to use server-side code. Server-side code is read by your host server and interpreted. Your host server will be able to interpret ASP or ASP.NET code (if it's a Microsoft server), Adobe's Cold Fusion (if it has that installed) and/or php, which is Open Source. Most hosting servers provide you with php.
In order to tell a server to interpret code, you have to tell the server what to expect and the universal way to do that is to place code into the web page in Dreamweaver and then change the extension of the page. When Dreamweaver makes web pages, it gives them the .html extension. If you insert Adobe Cold Fusion code, you need to change the extension to .cf If you are using php, the page must end in .php
I do have a very useful php form that works perfectly for sending email and I would be very happy to post it if your server uses php.
So find out what your web host uses and get back to me. I'll create the form for you if it's what I work with. You can also ask in the Dreamweaver Application Development forum for other languages.

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