Hello all,

This is probably an easy thing, but I can't figure it out from Claris Home Page help, or a book that I have. I would like to send an e-mail message after a form is successfully submitted from a web page into Filemaker. How can I do this? Thanks.

Ron

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Originally posted by stewarr1:

Hello all,

This is probably an easy thing, but I can't figure it out from Claris Home Page help, or a book that I have. I would like to send an e-mail message after a form is successfully submitted from a web page into Filemaker. How can I do this? Thanks.

Ron

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I hope it's not too easy because i need to do the same sort of thing too! Basically, if we are talking about the same type of thing, we need our "ACTION" command to do two things, so if anyone knows how to do that, we'd apprieciate it!

Anyway, Claris Home Page help is terrible as it is so i've been looking for the answer in a lot of places, if i find anything, i'll let you know on this board, and i hope you will do the same for me.

Thanks,

Jeremy

I haven't tried using the e-mail notification feature myself, but I was at the FileMaker Support page (www.filemaker.com/support/techinfo.html) and saw an article that might help you. It is called "CDML: Automatically Sending an Email when a New Record is Created via the Web". Just do a search on the article # 106018

It is (relatively) easy, and no Web Companion is NOT performing two actions at once. It works with any action tag

In your form drop in the following tags...

-MailTo

-MailFrom

-MailSub

-MailHost

-MailFormat

... and away you go. The trouble is that FMP does not alert you if there is a problem, you just don't get any mail sent. To work around this, configure Web Companion to "Extended log activity" then sift through the log to see what the problem was. Mail can be a trifle tough to debug, but keep working at it.

The mailhost - can you take your normal smtp for that or does the site have to be linked to a local mail-server?

Meaning: I am using a free email-provider called gmx and their smtp is: mail.gmx.net

Can I simply enter that as the mailhost (although my website has got nothing to do with that email-provider) or where do I get the mailhost from?

It can be any SMTP server you have access to.

So, you can use: mail.gmx.net as your MailHost-

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