How do I send an HTML Form in an Email not just MAILTO

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I have an HTML form for people to fill out  and I want it so when they click the submit button  it will just send the email  not bring up their email and ask them to send the message themselves   When I use    lt form action  MAILTO emailaddress email com      gt    All that does is open up a new window and populates the body of the email  but I want it to just send an email   And is there a way to format the output of what the email will look like  Instead of just a list of  the field names and the entered value   Thanks

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You are making sense  but you seem to misunderstand the concept of sending emails   HTML is parsed on the client side  while the e-mail needs to be sent from the server  You cannot do it in pure HTML  I would suggest writing a PHP script that will deal with the email sending for you   Basically  instead of the MAILTO  your form s action will need to point to that PHP script  In the script  retrieve the values passed by the form  in PHP  they are available through the   POST superglobal  and use the email sending function  mail      Of course  this can be done in other server-side languages as well  I m giving a PHP solution because PHP is the language I work with   A simple example code   form html    lt form method  post  action  email php  gt       lt input type  text  name  subject    gt  lt br   gt       lt textarea name  message  gt  lt  textarea gt   lt  form gt    email php    lt  php     mail  youremail example com     POST  subject      POST  message       gt   lt p gt Your email has been sent  lt  p gt    Of course  the script should contain some safety measures  such as checking whether the   POST valies are at all available  as well as additional email headers  sender s email  for instance   perhaps a way to deal with character encoding - but that s too complex for a quick example

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I don t know that what you want to do is possible  From my understanding  sending an email from a web form requires a server side language to communicate with a mail server and send messages   Are you running PHP or ASP NET   ASP NET Example  PHP Example

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I actually use ASP C  to send my emails now  with something that looks like    protected void Page Load object sender  EventArgs e        if  Request Form Count  gt  0                string formEmail               string fromEmail    from email com           string defaultEmail    default email com            string sendTo1                int x   0           for  int i   0  i  lt  Request Form Keys Count  i                          formEmail      lt strong gt     Request Form Keys i      lt  strong gt                formEmail           Request Form i      lt br  gt                if  Request Form Keys i      Email                                 if  Request Form i  ToString      string Empty                                        fromEmail   Request Form i  ToString                                      formEmail      lt br  gt                                     System Net Mail MailMessage myMsg   new System Net Mail MailMessage            SmtpClient smtpClient   new SmtpClient             try                       myMsg To Add new System Net Mail MailAddress defaultEmail                myMsg IsBodyHtml   true              myMsg Body   formEmail              myMsg From   new System Net Mail MailAddress fromEmail               myMsg Subject    Sent using Gmail Smtp               smtpClient Host    smtp gmail com               smtpClient Port   587              smtpClient EnableSsl   true              smtpClient UseDefaultCredentials   true              smtpClient Credentials   new System Net NetworkCredential  testing gmail com    pward                 smtpClient Send defaultEmail  sendTo1   Sent using gmail smpt   formEmail                      catch  Exception ee                        debug Text    ee Message                      This is an example using gmail as the smtp mail sender  Some of what is in here isn t needed  but it is how I use it  as I am sure there are more effective ways in the same fashion

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2020 Answer   The Easy Way using Google Apps Script  5 Mins   We had a similar challenge to solve yesterday  and we solved it using a Google Apps Script     Send Email From an HTML Form Without a Backend  Server  via Google   The solution takes 5 mins to implement and I ve documented with step-by-step instructions  https   github com nelsonic html-form-send-email-via-google-script-without-server  Brief Overview  A  Using the sample script  deploy a Google App Script  Deploy the sample script as a Google Spreadsheet APP Script  google-script-just-email js        remember to set the TO ADDRESS in the script to where ever you want the emails to be sent    and copy the APP URL so you can use it in the next step when you publish the script    B  Create your HTML Form and Set the action to the App URL  Using the sample html file   index html create a basic form        remember to paste your APP URL into the form action in the HTML form    C  Test the HTML Form in your Browser  Open the HTML Form in your Browser  Input some data  amp  submit it     Submit the form  You should see a confirmation that it was sent    Open the inbox for the email address you set  above     Done      Everything about this is customisable  you can easily   style theme the form with your favourite CSS Library   and Store the submitted data in a Google Spreadsheet   for quick analysis    The complete instructions are available on GitHub    https   github com nelsonic html-form-send-email-via-google-script-without-server

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