I-Mail Help


I-Mail

I-Mail is an Internet service provided by a CGI script that allows a standard e-mail message to be prepared from information entered into a web page form and appended to an internal mailbox file accessible to the server rather being sent over the Internet. This service is designed to make more difficult the distribution of unsolicited commercial e-mail presently plaguing the Internet by requiring a web page connection instead of just providing a traditional e-mail address to deliver mail.


From:

Enter or paste your name and/or Internet e-mail address to identify yourself. The maximum length of this field is 70 characters. If this field is left blank, then the value 'Anonymous' will be used.


Subject:

Enter or paste the subject of your i-mail message. The maximum length of this field is 70 characters. If this field is left blank, then the value '<NO SUBJECT>' will be used.


Cc:       field no longer supported

If you would like to receive a copy of your completed i-mail message, enter or paste a valid Internet e-mail address where you want the copy e-mailed. Or instead you may just use your browser to save a copy of the page generated in response to this form.


Text:

Enter or paste the body of your i-mail message. Your message will be rejected if you leave this field empty or if you provide message text that is longer than 3000 characters. If you have a large file to mail, see the next paragraph on making 'Attachments'.


Attachments

Enter or paste the Internet URL's for a maximum of three documents or files of some media type that you wish to attach to your i-mail message. Each URL should refer to the document to 'attach' and neither the URL nor the contents of the attachment it refers to should be likely to change over the lifetime of the mail message. The URL specified by this means will then be used by the message recipient to read or view the 'attached' document. Until a public information repository or information 'banking' service becomes available, a document which is not currently accessible on the Internet can be placed at an FTP site or, more securely, on an otherwise-unlinked web page and a URL can be formulated to refer to it.


Common/help/IMail.shtml /  2003.4.28 /  rl3s /  ©2012 R L Samuell