I can really use some help here and hopefully there is a simple answer to this.
I am developing a site for a guy that has a social club. I am using Dreamweaver MX and it is
ASP/VBscript.
I am trying to develop as much of the site on my notebook (Windows XP Pro) using IIS for the server to test the ASP pages.
I want top get as far as I can with the development before he ups his current plan with his site provider.

It seems though that there are parts of it I can’t develop and test until it has been uploaded and on the provider’s server.
There will be several pages on the site that will have an input form. I would like to have whatever the user submits in this form go to an e-mail for the site owner.
He will establish 3-4 e-mail address for the site and depending on which page the input form is on will determine which of these e-mail addresses it will be ‘routed’ to.

I have tried ASP mail and the whole CDONTS route. I am putting my e-mail ( ) as the address I wish for the form to send the input to. I dial in, establish a connection and send the data from the form but it does not show up as an e-mail in my inbox.

Then on hotscripts.com there are countless scripts for CGI/Perl which look like they are way the hell over my head here.
These are not complex forms, very simple. They can be name and e-mail or at most 4-5 input fields.
Are these not working because they are not ‘hosted’ on a providers server?
Is the ASP mail with CDONTS easier than going to CGI/Perl route?

Would appreciate any and all help I can get.

Raymond

If you can, use CDONTS -- its simple! And yes, it probably won't work locally. When I do what your doing, I comment out the code that sends the mail and simple response.redirect to the "thank you" page. This way I get all aspects, except the mail, complete. The only testing (well, the only "heavy" testing) needed after its published -- is the mail aspects.