Greeting Cards

Hey
Just wondering how do they let u send greeting cards from a web site.

Have Fun ^_^

Ahhh.... eCards, the 4th biggest bane of my email system (the others being spam, virals, and "OMFG! I'm ur new fanboi!" emails respectivly)

In a nutshell:

Webpage has form requesting email address and what card to send... naturally, 100% of the time the email address gets added to a spam list

Webpage's <form> element has an attribute telling the UA to send the email address etc... to some form handler

Form handler handles the form

...Sends an email off using whatever email system is installed on the server, be it CDONTS, CDOSYS, ASPMail, PHPMail, FreeMail, IIS-SMTP, whatever

...Person receives email then gets a new email address straight away to avoid the inevitable deluge of spam to follow, and adds the original sender of the message to the blacklist

HTH
-1337_d00d

those cards can't be sent with pure html and require some sort of server side language - it can be ASP, PHP, ColdFusion or whatever... the code behind can be simple and it can be very complicated, it all depends on what exactly it does.
indeed, many times it's used for spamming but not always. one just have to be very careful when he choose where to send such card from.

eCard companies make their money by sending email addresses off to spammers.... you'll notice that they rarely, if ever, have a privacy policy

Hence I never give my email addresses out to "teenyboppers" so I can avoid this

...and yet I can bet you get lots of spam.

"Thunderbird... Reclaim your inbox"

Hey.

i wanted to make some cards and to send it from my site...well i can't use ASP coz my server doesn't permit it..and PHP i'll have to start studyin then...

Thanks ^_^