Can't get "mailto:" to work.

[JerryCougrawr]

I can't get the "mailto" HTML action to work, it says its sending an email, but I don't recieve it.

I'm trying to make a page that players can "submit" a donation form, the form being sent to my email. I'm really new at HTML, 2nd day, so I'm still learning, though its quite easy. I'm using a form that you enter in your info, then press Submit, and it sends me the email of what your submitted.

This is the HTMl code for the page:
[url]http://pastebin.com/b1uaNPnt[/url]

Everything else works perfect, I'm just not recieving an email.
Any help greatly appreciated. :3

Hopefully I got the right section for this.

[DEADBEEF]

You need to have a mail client (eg outlook) installed and correctly configured on the machine your browsing the site via. And so will all your clients who you intend to use the mailto form.

[url=http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol3/form_no4.htm]This is generally why mailto forms aren't really used all that much any more.[/url]

Consider POSTing the form to a php/cgi/python/asp/whatever script and have the server send the email, rather than relying on the client having a configured mail client (may people only use webmail nowadays).

If you do this though, make sure the send to email address isn't one of the form's parameters though else you'll open your server up for spammers to send mail through.

[JerryCougrawr]

Alright, will do.

Thanks a ton good sir, helped quite a bit or else I'd be stuck getting it to work. I'll use something else, as you suggested.

[pan_dandy]

I just put one on my site (school asb website). [url]http://monroeasb.vacau.com/contact/[/url]
Is this kinda what you're looking for?

[editline]09:24PM[/editline]

Oh and the site is totally a work in progress btw. I wouldn't release something that bad.