Instant e-mail

**pauland** · 23 June 2019, 11:16 PM

Originally Posted by zapatak

Hi,

Maybe I am not seeing the wood for trees but how do I arrange things so that a visitor to a Xara built website can send a mail to the site owner, or a pre-defined recipient, with just a single click ? That is no outlook pages on screen, just a simple click and the mail is sent ?

As I said it is probably easy peasy but I am not making much progress...

Looking forward to hearing your suggestions

Zap

So what information would this email contain if the user has simply pressed a button?

If you mean the user has to enter information then press a button - that's a form.

**Egg Bramhill** · 24 June 2019, 02:57 AM

I don't see any request re a form from the OP, just a request to open an email reply

**pauland** · 24 June 2019, 06:52 AM

Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

I don't see any request re a form from the OP, just a request to open an email reply

It all depends on what "just a simple click and the mail is sent" actually means.

Does it mean "just a simple click and the mail client is opened"?

or does it mean "just a simple click and the mail is sent" (using info already entered on-screen)?

or does it mean "just a simple click and the mail is sent" (using some other info)?

It's just that I don't associate opening the email client as actually sending the mail with one click.

**zapatak** · 24 June 2019, 08:55 AM

Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

I don't see any request re a form from the OP, just a request to open an email reply

Hi, sorry to have confused the issue by not really describing the problem...

It is obvious that there is more to this e-mail business than meets the eye!

To be clear, I would like to place a button on the webpage which the user can click. Once he does this a mail is sent to a pre-determined recipient with no further intervention necessary on the part of the sender. I think that this would be a useful function and see many possible uses in the fields of opinion polls, voting etc

My own intended use is slightly more complex....

I am running a site for a group of devoted people who want to find some money to restore their 18nth century church organ. www.aobv.fr We are in Provence France and the site is in French.

The idea is to set up a crowd funding operation. The one touch mail button will send a mail to a mail address which is temporarilly closed. The 'out of office' reply will be a pre-prepared mail explaining the organ situation and asking for donations. This mail will arrive in the mail inbox of the original button clicker who can then forward it as many times as he wishes to friends, family and other people he considers likely to make a donation.

I hope that this explains why I am trying to send an empty mail to myself...

I hope that you can help or maybe even suggest another way of arriving at the same result.

Best wishes

zap

**pauland** · 24 June 2019, 09:13 AM

Originally Posted by zapatak

Hi, sorry to have confused the issue by not really describing the problem...

It is obvious that there is more to this e-mail business than meets the eye!

To be clear, I would like to place a button on the webpage which the user can click. Once he does this a mail is sent to a pre-determined recipient with no further intervention necessary on the part of the sender. I think that this would be a useful function and see many possible uses in the fields of opinion polls, voting etc

My own intended use is slightly more complex....

I am running a site for a group of devoted people who want to find some money to restore their 18nth century church organ. www.aobv.fr We are in Provence France and the site is in French.

The idea is to set up a crowd funding operation. The one touch mail button will send a mail to a mail address which is temporarilly closed. The 'out of office' reply will be a pre-prepared mail explaining the organ situation and asking for donations. This mail will arrive in the mail inbox of the original button clicker who can then forward it as many times as he wishes to friends, family and other people he considers likely to make a donation.

I hope that this explains why I am trying to send an empty mail to myself...

I hope that you can help or maybe even suggest another way of arriving at the same result.

Best wishes

zap

It can't be done exactly as you describe - you can't activate the email client on the computer and make it send the email immediately. Without the email client you won't know the users email address.

It would be very sneaky if a button press gave away a users email address.

Just be upfront and explain what is going on on the web page than try and manipulate people via email.

**zapatak** · 24 June 2019, 10:18 AM

Hi there,

Pleased to see that you have at last understood the question !

I agree that it is very much a Catch 22 type situation but there must be a solution... many commecial sites have 'one click do this buttons !' sending a mail should be feasible

Unfortunately most of the people likely to see this webpage are over 70 and not particularly PC aware.. the whole idea is to make it as easy as possible, otherwise it simply will not work.

Creative solutions please

zap

**pauland** · 24 June 2019, 10:33 AM

Originally Posted by zapatak

Many commercial sites have 'one click do this buttons !' sending a mail should be feasible

It is, but what is missing here is that invariably those sites will have a logon and through the logon and cookies they will know your email from the time that you register with them. The one-click is fine if you have logged on.

I am going to say very explicitly you cannot have a button that captures the users email address and sends you an email with nothing but a button click and it's quite right that it's not possible.

If you want to appeal for funds, put it on the website and don't try and spam them.

If you insist on the email route, use a form and give them an opportunity to enter their email, or use a mailto.

**zapatak** · 24 June 2019, 02:31 PM

Woah !

Please leave the hypocritical ethics out of the discussion!

The only person who would receive the email address is the webmaster, he along with the president and treasurer of the association, already posses the addresses of all members including phone numbers and street addresses.

The idea is simply to make it easier for the members who are willing to participate to do so, there is not the slightest intention or suggestion of spamming them.

Another option I was considering is the use of a QR code embedded in a page, once scanned it can send the request for details with a single click, the details of which can then be forwarded to the users email client.

Keep up the good work

zap