Website mailing list problem- takes me to an email client like Outlook?

Filed under: email list mailing — admin @ 7:57 pm

My friend site is trying to log a mailing list, but when people put in the name and email it opens up a media client.

Is there something wrong with the code:
<td colspan="3" rowspan="3"><form action="MAILTO:email@email.com" method="post" enctype="text/plain">

<h4><span class="style3">name:</span><br />
<input type="text" name="name" value="yourname" />

<br />
<span class="style3">e-mail:</span><br />
<input type="text" name="mail" value="yourmail" />

<br />
<br />
<input type="submit" value="Send">

It is not clear to me what you want to achieve, but a form action Mailto invokes the browser to look for the default email program, start it up and open up a new email to email@email.com. This is expected behaviour

If you want people to sign up to be included in a mailing list, you need to make a small database in which all subscribers are included and do a add record to add a new subscriber.

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  1. It is not clear to me what you want to achieve, but a form action Mailto invokes the browser to look for the default email program, start it up and open up a new email to email@email.com. This is expected behaviour

    If you want people to sign up to be included in a mailing list, you need to make a small database in which all subscribers are included and do a add record to add a new subscriber.
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    Comment by PCeeze — July 22, 2010 @ 1:13 am

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