how to email without needing an local email client

Hi Max and Bob,

Hope all is well. As usual CF is working well and thanks for this terrific extension. It helps solve so many challenges.

Here's my dilemma and I'm hoping you can shed some light on how to solve it.

I have a multidB record form, which returns can email address. I curren;y have the email address coded to a <a href "mailto"...... behaviour and this is working fine as it launches the users local email client and off we go.

What I really need is;

when the user clicks on the link in the returned DB record, CF sends the email directly without having to launch an email client (much like send an email before/after submission).

The reason is to ensure the email "from" comes form a trusted source (me i.e webadmin), rather than a mystery person.

is there anyway to do this?

regards

-Anthony

Hi Anthony,

Yes I think you can do this - not tested though!

Add a new action to your form called say 'email'. Then you can add a link in the DB listing that identifies the current record and the current user and links to your new event.

In the event have some Custom code to validate the calling URL, then use the record id to look up the email (safer than passing it in the URL) and the user info and and Email action to send the email.

Bob