PHP forms and IE's "Send page as Email"...

[gavinh]

Hello all, this is my first post here I  hope someone can shed some light on my problem!

 

I've made a web-based email wizard for work where the main body of the email is populated from the database, and in the previous page the user will enter some info in a PHP form, and this information is used to customise the opening and closing paragraphs (which are static and not called from the Database).

 

Anyway, this works perfectly, and I have formatted the display page so that it appears as a decent looking HTML email. The plan was for the users to use the Internet Explorer function "Send Page By Email" so that it will go to Outlook and be sent from there. (for spam reasons  we need to have it send from the mail client).

 

This all appears fine in outlook, but the values passed in the form from the previous page do not appear.

 

So basically, instead of..

 

Dear Mr.Smith,

To follow up with your conversation with my colleague John recently...

 

It appears as:

Dear,

To follow up with your conversation with my colleague recently...

 

 

This problem happens with Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, and it is happening when using IE 6 and 7 (there is no option for this with current versions of Firefox or Opera which we can not use anyway).

 

Is anyone familiar with this problem? Is there a way around it?

Thanks

[conker87]

Do these values appear in the client when you're hitting 'send to a friend'?

[gavinh]

Do these values appear in the client when you're hitting 'send to a friend'?

Where is "send to a friend"!

 

EDIT:

The same problem exists when I try to export to Excel.