Q325 How can I make a script that will automatically reply an e-mail?

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Q325 How can I make a script that will automatically reply an e-mail?

"Automatically" - in Client Side JavaScript - no, not without user intervention. It would a security breach if it were possible as you would be able to capture peoples email addresses without them knowing.

The nearest thing you can get to it is with Netscape:

<FORM ACTION="mailto:someone@somewhere.com" METHOD="POST" ENCTYPE="text/plain" NAME="myForm">
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" NAME="mySubmitButton">
</FORM>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"><!--
document.myForm.mySubmitButton.click();
//--></SCRIPT>

However, if the user has their browser setup to warn them when a form is being emailed over the net (which everyone should have done) then it will prompt the user before sending the email.

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• 17:17:39 1/11/00 Sangeeta Gupta