Email a form without Cold Fusion

Hi everyone,
I have a client whose hosting doesn't provide Cold Fusion. on
his website, there is a form that the content must be emailed to
him after customer submission. Is there anyway to do it without
cold fusion, Cfmail command?
thanks in advance.

you can just use a regular mailto with a form, and it will
send. However the
formatting on the receiving end is somewhat of a pain in the
"Shida" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:eo1cgi$s0o$[email protected]..
> is there any way other than CF or ASP or PHP?
> I have heard of some kinds of web forms, but I don't
know about them
> either.

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