In order to send form results to mail, you have to
configure the FrontPage Server Extensions to use a Simple Mail Transfer
Protocol (SMTP) server. You are prompted with the option of configuring these
settings when you install the server extensions to a virtual server through the
MMC. You can also configure these settings after installing the server
extensions as well.
To get to the mail settings, do the following:
On Windows NT Server 4.0, IIS 4.0 with the FrontPage 2000 Server
Extensions installed:
- Click Start, point to Programs, point to Windows
NT 4.0 Option Pack, point to Microsoft Internet Information
Server, and click Internet Service Manager. (This starts the Management Console.)
- Under the Internet Information Server tree and under the Computer Name, click the virtual server that
you want to configure mail settings, right-click, and click Properties. (This starts the Web site properties.)
- Click the Server Extensions tab, and under Options, click the Settings button. (This is where you will configure the mail settings for
the virtual server.)
For all other Web servers on Windows NT Server and other
Windows operating systems including Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT
Workstation running FrontPage Personal Web server, Microsoft Personal Web
Server, Netscape, or O'Reiley with the FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions
installed:
- For Windows NT Server and Workstation, click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and click Server
Extensions Administrator.
For Windows 95 and Windows 98, click Start, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Office Tools, and click Server Extensions Administrator. - Under the FrontPage Server Extensions tree and under the Computer Name, click the virtual server that
you want to configure mail settings, right-click, and select Properties. (This starts the Server Extensions tab.)
- Click the Settings button under Options. (This is where you will configure the mail settings for the
virtual server.)
The settings available are:
Web Server's mail address: Type the e-mail address that you want to appear in the From line
of any e-mail messages sent by FrontPage components. (An example of a FrontPage
component that sends e-mail is the form results component. This component mails
information entered on a form on a Web page to the author or any other
designated account.)
Contact address: Type the e-mail address that users should write to if they have
problems. The address you enter will appear on error messages that are
displayed for some problems encountered by FrontPage users.
SMTP Mail server: Type the SMTP server's Host name or IP address.
Note: The fully qualified domain name (FQDN) or IP Address entered here
must point to an existing Exchange server or SMTP server (NOT an IIS SMTP
server) on your LAN or your ISP's "SMTP host," "SMTP relay host," or "SMTP
smart host." The server extensions use the IIS SMTP service which CANNOT
deliver mail directly to an end recipient. The only time the FQDN or IP Address
will be the same as your IIS server is if Exchange is installed on the same
machine as the Web Server (Not Recommended).
When a user submits a
form whose results are to be sent by e-mail, the FrontPage Server Extensions
connect to the SMTP server to deliver the mail. By default, FrontPage assumes
the server is listening on port 25, the standard for SMTP, but you can override
this by appending
:xx to the name, where the
xx is the port to use. For example:
mail.example.microsoft.com (Standard mail server name)
127.0.0.1 (Mail server's IP address)
mail.example.microsoft.com:31 (Standard Mail server name on different
port)
127.0.0.1:31 (Mail server's IP address on different port)
Mail encoding: Click the mail-encoding scheme you want to use for your mail
messages to encode mail contents in binary format. Using the default setting,
Use Default Encoding, is recommended. FrontPage will automatically determine the mail
encoding to use. You might change the encoding default if you know that the
receiver of your e-mail messages uses a different encoding scheme and cannot
interpret your messages. The mail-encoding schemes include:
- 8-Bit: 8-bit encoding indicates there is no encoding, the lines are
short, and non-ASCII characters may be present.
- 7-Bit: 7-bit encoding indicates there is no encoding, the characters
are all ASCII, and the lines are short enough for SMTP to be able to
successfully transport the message.
- Binary: Binary encoding indicates there is no encoding, non- ASCII
characters may be present, and the lines may be too long for SMTP to be able to
successfully transport the message.
- Quotable-Printable: Quotable-Printable encoding is used for data in which the
majority of the characters are already 7-bit ASCII characters. The intent with
the encoding technique is to leave the ASCII characters alone and to encode
only the characters that have the high bit (of an 8-bit byte) turned
on.
- Base64: Base64 encoding technique renders data unreadable without
decoding it, and results in the message being expanded by a factor of
one-third.
- X-Token: X-Token encoding indicates the encoding technique is privately
negotiated between the sender and receiver SMTP.
Character set: Click the name of the set of characters that you want used in
e-mail messages. Each character set is the alphabet of a different language.
You are selecting a table that maps a byte of data to a specific character. The
same byte maps to a different character in each table (and so in each
language). The default,
Use Default Encoding, is recommended. FrontPage will automatically detect the
character set to use. Listed below are some of the 8,859 character sets and the
languages they can represent. Full details can be found at
http://www.w3.org/international/
.
- US-ASCII: This encoding scheme is specified by the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO) in its ISO 646 standard. A majority of
computers support US-ASCII encoding scheme. English, Swahili, and Latin
languages can be accommodated using ISO 646.
- ISO-8859-1 Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Catalan, Danish,
Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Icelandic, Irish,
Italian
- ISO-8859-2 Croatian, Czech, Hungarian
- ISO-8859-3 Esperanto, Maltese
- ISO-8859-5 Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Macedonian (FYROM)
- ISO-8859-7 Greek
- ISO-8859-8 Hebrew
- ISO-8859-9 Turkish
- ISO-8859-10 Lapp, Latvian, Lithuanian