Form Mail
Online forms that can reply by email

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This gadget allows you to setup order forms, feed-back forms and the like. The data from the form is e-mailed to the address that you specify.

The following is a definition of the elements envlolved in a feed-back form...

The <FORM ACTION=...>

This field specifies where the form values get sent by the browser. We set this as follows:

<FORM ACTION="/cgi-bin/mail" METHOD="POST">

The recipient value:

The purpose of this script is to convert a form to e-mail, which means that we need to have an e-mail address to send the results to. We do that with a hidden field as follows:

<input Name="recipient" type="hidden" value="yourid@your.mailhost">

Subject:

We specify the subject of the mail message with a hidden field using a line like the following:

<input Name="subject" type="hidden" value="formmail demo">

Redirect:

This is another hidden field that is used to specify a URL that the client browser should go to after submitting the form. Usually this would be a thank you note of some type (Note that this has to be fully qualified, as the default directory is /cgi-bin during the redirect.)

<input Name="redirect" type="hidden" value="/gadgets/formmail/thanks.html">

Username:

We might give the client a field to enter their e-mail ID. This will be used as a return address for the message you get.

<input Name="username" type="text" size=40>

Realname:

We might give the client a field to enter their real name (as compared to their e-mail id). This will also be used in the return address you received.

<input Name="realname" type="text" size=40>