Question

How is this possibly not ethical? The client wants an online interface to view email proposals and can then click “accept” or “reject” will will send a static email to that person, telling them if their proposal has been accepted or not.

I’m trying to scrape an email address from the content on a page, assign that email address to a value, and then send an email via PHP with that address.

Except, the following’s not working.

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7/jquery.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
    var from_address = $('.rcmContactAddress').attr('href');
    from_address = from_address.substring(7);
    $('#to').value(from_address);
});
</script>
<input type="text" id="to" value=""></input>

The page (built with a Roundcube backend) will display the email message, with a button for accept or reject. Part of the page content looks like this:

<td class="header from">
    <span>
        <a href="mailto:emailaddress" onclick="return rcmail.command('compose','emailaddress',this)" title="emailaddress" class="rcmContactAddress">Contact Name</a>
    </span>
</td>

Answer 1

It might be only one error and there are more but:

$('#to').value(from_address);

Should be:

$('#to').val(from_address);

If you can show us how the anchor looks like we might help you even more.