Newbie question: How do I get my form to submit to my email?

So, would it be possible to have two stages. One form to send the contects of the text boxes etc. to my email and then a seperate page where I could allow that person to upload a file to the server?

You could do it that way. You'll still need to contact your hosting company to find out what they allow and how to set up your forms.

What are you trying to do? It might just be easier to have a textarea where they can paste the file contents, or just open a mail window and let them do it however they want.

2 webwoman:
 1. You CAN upload files without any components installed. There's plenty of examples on web.
 2. You CAN upload file and attach it (if you know how to attach - i don't) in one go - you'll just have some troubles with extracting formfield names & values from multipart/form-data header.

2 roblablob:
you can use javascript on the page with your form only to validate form...
To redirect use:
ASP: Response.Redirect("http://somewhere")
PHP: header ("Location: http://somewhere");

No, without a component of some kind, you can't upload AND get form data at the same time. You can upload without components, but it's not recommended -- it's not the best way, and it's very likely to crash the server if the files are large. PHP has upload components, ASP has third party components, but they're not installed by default.

Many hosting companies do NOT allow ANY anonymous uploads, for obvious reasons.

So you say that enctype="multipart/form-data" can only contain inputs of type File? You are not right - it can contain any other available controls - i dealed with this kind of stuff: created form for picture uploading together with some sender info and description. php whch received this form saved uploaded picture and updated database all-in-one. So i think that replacing DB update action with attaching file and sending email is not a problem.
But i must agree that componentless uploads on ASP is not a good practice for larger files... No, they won't crach server - script will be stopped as soon as ScriptTimeout exceeded.
Hosting without uploads suxxxx :)

So you say that enctype="multipart/form-data" can only contain inputs of type File? You are not right - it can contain any other available controls - i dealed with this kind of stuff: created form for picture uploading together with some sender info and description. php whch received this form saved uploaded picture and updated database all-in-one. So i think that replacing DB update action with attaching file and sending email is not a problem.
But i must agree that componentless uploads on ASP is not a good practice for larger files... No, they won't crach server - script will be stopped as soon as ScriptTimeout exceeded.
Hosting without uploads suxxxx :)

With the right components or the right server side language/modules, you can handle both the file and the form data. But not without that.

And again -- they're using DW, and don't even know what the server has available. Not all servers will allow uploads, and  for good reason.

Before anything else, they need to contact their hosting service and find out what they have.

ok, roblablob tell us what serverside do you have in exposal

yes i can use formail off the server using php to set the email settings and redirect url. So this has sort of solved my question. but another problem i have encountered is this: I have set up a php form which will upload to the server and everything works fine, but ive had to set the CHMOD settings to 777 ont the directory on the server, could this be a security risk?