Preserved Topic: automatic email

Does any body know a tutorial or the like (script ...), which shows how I can send e-mail automaticly. Is there any js methode that does this?
if not how could i access my mail programm (or in general any programm)
via js?

I'm not so sure about the Javascript options available to you, I usually just use one of the standard CGI/perl applications for this function. Javascript has a whole bunch of hooks to stop designers from using the web to automatically send a mail (and a users mail address) to potential bad-guys. Hopefully someone else with more knowledge on this could jump in with better info?

Your pal, -doc-

I'm not exactly sure what your talking about here.

Are you looking for like an automatic response-type script?

Could you please be more specific?

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cheers.jay

I want to write a script which
1) gets the date and compairs it with given dates.
this is no problem.
2) if it gets a dat that matches with one of the given ones
it should access my PINE and sends an e-mail (birthday grat.).
my problem or my quation is :
Is there any possibility to do so with js.

This is the specific case.

In gneral how (if possible) can i access other programms from js?

If there is no possibility, so can you (DocOzone) or any body else tell me how I get to such CGI scripts mentioned above without spending much time in discussing every detail in them?

thanks

You cant access anything server side ,with JS (as far as I know, maybe with the aid of Java or something), but what you can do is submit a form automatically, with JS.

document.formName.emailInputName.value="emailaddress";
document.formName.submit();

now Im not going to explain how the CGI(probably Perl) end works, but you can get ready made scripts that do that kind of thing easily
http://www.cgi-resources.com

or http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/ <- not sure if thats the URL

I take it you dont know Perl ... no problem, it so easy to modify (even write), I modified( well actually I made it using the power of Copy and/or Paste) a guestbook ages ago, with no clue about Perl.

there are also tutorials everywhere. Even full books in HTML form.

php absolutely rocks for this stuff, you should check it out.


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