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[k4m1k4z1]

Hey guys, I have been having an issue when i am bulding a site. I am new to forms, and when i try to send them to my email it says "clould not perform this operation because the defualt mail client is not properly installed."

I am here to ask why this is happening and how i can fix it.
Help would be amazing to see, and this has been bugging me for some time now.
Thanks
K4m1k4z1

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[WingedPanther]

Wait, are you trying to get the client machine to send an email, or the server? To get your server to send the email will require something like PHP or ASP.NET on the server to process the form data.

[k4m1k4z1]

How do you get the client machine to send it?
I never heard of this, interesting......

[Drew]

I believe that Panther was querying you on which one you were trying to do so that they knew more about what you were tryign to do since you stated that it gave the error of "your default mail client is not properly installed". This generally indicates that you are trying to send it from somewhere other than a server that has mail. If you are sending from soewhere that doesn't have mail server access wether it be QMail, SendMail, or some other form of mail, even the PHP mail() call to call the mail server set in the PHP.ini, then it won't be able to send the email.

So please let us know where oyu are attempting to send it from at this time so that we can better assist you.

[WingedPanther]

If you use a link with the mail tag, the client will try to send the email. If it doesn't have an email client installed, it generates the message you saw.

If you are submitting a form, then the server has to send the email, which is completely different.

[jthom263]

For Submitting A Form To Send Feedback Either Learn PHP Or Cgi Or Something Or Use This Free Feedback Form Wizard: Free Customized Feedback Form Script for Your Website (thesitewizard.com) Or An Equivalent Wizard.

But If You Are Trying To Send Via The <a Href="mailto:yourname@yourdomain.com">COntact</A> Or Similar It Is Not Working For You Because You Do Not Have Any Mail Client Installed And Configured On Your Computer Such As; MS Office Outlook Or Mozilla Thunderbird. MS Office Outlook (Costs Money) Can Be Downloaded Here As A Trial: Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com And Mozilla Thunderbird (Free) Can Be Downloaded Here: Thunderbird - It?s All Yours.

Hope That Helped. :)

[Howdy_McGee]

Or you can do a quick google search on email form generators. This link is what I use frequently:

Link > Email Me Form™ - HTML Forms, Web Forms, PHP Forms

quick, easy, simple. You don't need to know any PHP or server side languages here.
Hope it helps

~McGee