<FORM ACTION = "/cgi-sys/formmail.pl" METHOD = "POST">
<input type=hidden name="recipient" value="ANYBOX@YOURDOMAIN.COM">
<input type=hidden name="subject" value="SUBJECT">
<input type=hidden name="redirect" value="http://YOURDOMAIN.COM/PAGE.HTML">

Replace the blue highlighted content with your information.

You can leave out the "recipient" value if you choose to use our internal formmail configuration file. See bottom of this page for optional configuration instructions. This formmail can also work with HTTPS:// pages as well.

IMPORTANT - If want to send the form info to an off-site email address you must use an email address for the recipient field that is "@" your domain name and then set that box to forward to the off-site email in your mail manager. Please note that POST must be in uppercase letters.

The following are descriptions and proper syntax for fields you can use with FormMail. Add each syntax line to your form mail to use these functions.

Recipient Field:

Description: This form field allows you to specify to whom you wish for your form results to be mailed.
 

Syntax: <input type=hidden name="recipient" value="anybox@yourdomain.com">

Subject Field:

Description: The subject field will allow you to specify the subject that you wish to appear in the email that is sent to you after this form has been filled out. If you do not have this option turned on, then the script will default to a message subject: "WWW Form Submission".

Syntax: If you wish to choose what the subject is:

<input type=hidden name="subject" value="Your Subject">

To allow the user to choose a subject:

<input type=text name="subject">

Email Field:

Description: This form field will allow the user to specify their return email address. If you want to be able to return e-mail to your user, I strongly suggest that you include this form field and allow them to fill it in. This will be put into the From: field of the message you receive. If you want to require an email address with valid syntax, add this field name to the 'required' field.

Syntax: <input type=text name="email">

Realname Field:

Description: The realname form field will allow the user to input their real name. This field is useful for identification purposes and will also be put into the From: line of your message header.

Syntax: <input type=text name="realname">

Redirect Field:

Description: If you wish to redirect the user to a different URL, rather than having them see the default response to the fill-out form, you can use this hidden variable to send them to a pre-made HTML page.

Syntax: To choose the URL they will end up at:

<input type=hidden name="redirect" value="http://yourdomain.com/to/file.html">

To allow them to specify a URL they wish to travel to once the form is filled out:

<input type=text name="redirect">

Required Field:

Description: You can require certain fields in your form to be filled in before the user can successfully submit the form. Simply place all field names that you want to be mandatory into this field, separated by commas. If the required fields are not filled in, the user will be notified of what they need to fill in, and a link back to the form they just submitted will be provided.

To use a customized error page, see "missing_fields_redirect"

Syntax: If you want to require that they fill in the email and phone fields in your form, so that you can reach them once you have received the mail, use the syntax like:

<input type=hidden name="required" value="email,phone">

Env_report Field:

Description: Allows you to have Environment variables included in the email message you receive after a user has filled out your form. Useful if you wish to know what browser they were using, what domain they were coming from or any other attributes associated with environment variables. The following is a short list of valid environment variables that might be useful:

REMOTE_HOST - Sends the host name making the request.
REMOTE_ADDR - Sends the IP address of the remote host.
HTTP_USER_AGENT - The browser the client is using.

(Note: In our case, both REMOTE_HOST and REMOTE_ADDR are the same, since our servers don't do the reverse DNS look up needed to generate the true REMOTE_HOST string).

Syntax: If you wanted to find all the above variables, you would put the following into your form:

<input type=hidden name="env_report" value="REMOTE_HOST,REMOTE_ADDR,HTTP_USER_AGENT">

Sort Field:

Description: This field allows you to choose the order in which you wish for your variables to appear in the email form that FormMail generates. You can choose to have the field sorted alphabetically or specify a set order in which you want the fields to appear in your mail message. By leaving this field out, the order will simply default to the order in which the browsers send the information to the script (which is usually the exact same order as they appeared in the form).

When sorting by a set order of fields, you should include the phrase "order:" as the first part of your value for the sort field, and then follow that with the field names you want to be listed in the email message, separated by commas.

Syntax: To sort alphabetically:

<input type=hidden name="sort" value="alphabetic">

To sort by a set field order:

<input type=hidden name="sort" value="order:name1,name2,etc...">

Print_config Field:

Description: print_config allows you to specify which of the config variables you would like to have printed in your e-mail message. By default, no config fields are printed to your email. This is because the important form fields, like email, subject, etc. are included in the header of the message. However some users have asked for this option so they can have these fields printed in the body of the message. The config fields that you wish to have printed should be in the value attribute of your input ta g separated by commas.

Syntax: <input type=hidden name="print config" value="email, subject">

Print_blank_fields Field:

Description: print_blank_fields allows you to request that all form fields are printed in the return HTML, regardless of whether or not they were filled in. FormMail defaults to turning this off, so that unused form fields aren't emailed.

Syntax: <input type=hidden name="print_blank_fields" value="1">

Title Field:

Description: This form field allows you to specify the title and header that will appear on the resulting page if you do not specify a redirect URL.

Syntax: <input type=hidden name="title" value="Feedback Form Results">

Return_link_url Field:

Description: This field allows you to specify a URL that will appear, as return_link_title, on the following report page. This field will not be used if you have the redirect field set, but it is useful if you allow the user to receive the report on the following page, but want to offer them a way to get back to your main page.

Syntax: <input type=hidden name="return_link_url" value="http://yourdomain.com/index.htm">

Return_link_title:

Description: This is the title that will be used to link the user back to the page you specify with return_link_url. The two fields will be shown on the resulting form page as:

Back to Main Page

Syntax: <input type=hidden name="return_link_title" value="Back to Main Page">

How to configure Form Mail

Our version of Formmail (Secure FormMail v2.20 2002/11/21) allows our clients to hide their email addresses to avoid spammers from harvesting your email addresses. To modify your formmail config file, simply click on the File Manager icon in your Control Panel.

Once in there, type ".FormMail.conf" without the quotes (be aware this is case sensitive) within the "File name" field at the bottom. Then click on the "Create/Edit File" button to edit this file. If you are alerted that the file doesn't exist, let us know. 

Follow the instructions below which will appear after "#" symbols within the ".FormMail.conf" file.  These "#" symbols indicate that the words that follow it are comments and changing these comments will not affect this config file.

If you do not feel that you have enough knowledge to continue, simply contact us and request us to change this information for you.

Set this below to '1' if you recieve any errors. They will be displayed to the browser in a more verbose manner.

[DEBUGGING]
0
[/DEBUGGING]

This address below will receive bounced messages if any of the emails # cannot be delivered, and should be set to your e-mail address.

[postmaster]
sales@yourdomain.com
[/postmaster]

A list of the email addresses that formmail can send email to. The elements of this list can be either simple email addresses (like 'you@your.domain') or domain names (like 'your.domain'). If it's a domain name then *any* address at the domain will be allowed.

NOTE: One address/domain per line

[allow_mail_to]
yourdomain.com
[/allow_mail_to]

A hash for predefining a list of recipients in the script, and then choosing between them using the recipient form field, while keeping all the email addresses out of the HTML so that they don't get collected by address harvesters and sent junk email.

For example, suppose you have three forms on your site, and you want each to submit to a different email address and you want to keep the addresses hidden. In the HTML form that should submit to the recipient 'bob@yourdomain.com', you would then set the recipient with:
 

[recipient_alias]
username=>sales@yourdomain.com
[/recipient_alias]

If this flag is set to 1 then an additional email will be sent to the person who submitted the form.

CAUTION: with this feature turned on it's possible for someone to put someone else's email address in the form and submit it 5000 times, causing this script to send a flood of email to a third party. This third party is likely to blame you for the email flood attack.

[send_confirmation_mail]
0
[/send_confirmation_mail]

The header and body of the confirmation email sent to the person who submits the form, if the [send_confirmation_mail] flag is set. In the example below, everything between the lines: [confirmation_text] and [/confirmation_text] is treated as part of the email.

IMPORTANT!! Everything before the first blank line is taken as part of the email header, and everything after the first blank line is the body of the email.

[confirmation_text]
From: sales@yourdomain.com
Subject: From Sales E-Store