I set up an email list form using Javascript. The form result are automatically email to me with the users information, this part is working fine. However, I'd also like a standard email sent to the user thanking them for joining the list, how can this be done? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also, are there advantages to using CGI instead of Javascript for this?
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The advantage to using CGI to do this is that what you want to do won't work with Javascript. Javascript can only email from the client's computer, and then only after the client approves a message going out. It'd look rather unprofessional to have something pop up expecting the client to email a thank you note from you to him/her.
Scripts that automatically email without client consent are called viruses.
Scripts that automatically email without client consent are called viruses.
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