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http://www.thalasson.com Free Mailform Facility This service is developed and maintained by PJB Software as a Thalasson Web Resource. Use of the standard service is free and it can be used to operate HTML forms that you set up on any of your web pages whatever the nature of the ISP account. What the mailform service does When a visitor to your web site fills in the form and clicks on the 'submit' button the information entered in the form is formatted as an email and then sent to your email address. How the mailform service works The form submitter's browser sends the form data to a Thalasson web server. Then the mailform CGI script on the web server processes the form data constructing an email that contains the data. This email is then sent to the address that you have specified in the form HTML code. The form submitter will then normally see the response page that you have set up and specified in the form code. How to use the free mailform service You should read through these notes carefully before starting to use this service. If you have any questions then please use the form provided below. Note that not all mailform type scripts operate in precisely the same way or have the same range of facilities. You should not assume that a feature that you have seen in some other mailform or formmail type script necessarily exists in this one. Below is a simple example that gives the HTML source code for a form that makes use of the free service. If you use the HTML code of this example as a template for your own form then you will need to modify it where appropriate and write the HTML code for any additional form fields that you require. The following description of how to set up a form that uses the script, assumes a basic understanding of HTML. Setting up a form to use the mailform script The ACTION attribute is - ACTION="http://www.qkxyq.com/thalasson/mailform.cgi" (No other version of the ACTION attribute is now operational.) The form must have METHOD=POST (Note. METHOD=POST has no connection with ACTION=mailto: . .) The ENCTYPE value must be application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Since this is the default, the ENCTYPE attribute can be left out. The simplest form tag, that is consistent with the details given above, is: <FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="http://www.qkxyq.com/thalasson/mailform.cgi"> Your form can have an indefinitely large number of form fields subject to a limit of 14.6Kb on the form data sent by the browser to the web server on each form submission. (This limit may vary from time to time.) All form field types are supported other than TYPE=FILE form fields - i.e. you cannot get files uploaded into the email. Form fields which have a special function These fields are: emailto The email address to which the generated email is to be sent. This should be one address in a TYPE=HIDDEN form field or a small list of addresses where the form submitter can select one address in the list. In any case, all addresses must belong to you (the form provider) or to your associates. On form submission the constructed email can only be sent to one address. nextpage The URL of the HTML page to come up following form submission. It should be a full URL but the 'http://' can be left off, and it will then be supplied by the script (i.e. www.wijjettz.com is equivalent to http://www.wijjettz.com). Do not make this the same as the page containing the form as this will confuse users and they will often assume that their form submission has not been recognised. If there is no value in nextpage then a standard 'thank you' page will be displayed. subject The subject line for the generated email. useraddr This can be used to allow the form submitter to supply his/her email address. It is used as the email's Return-Path and in the From address given in the email header. username This can be used to allow the form submitter to supply his/her name. It is incorporated into either the email's From or Reply-To address in its header. This can be used as an alternative to useraddr. It is used in the email's Reply-To address given in the email header. You will normally want emailto, nextpage, and subject to be hidden fields (TYPE=HIDDEN) with preset values. To prevent the emailto address being found by an email address harvester and being placed on a spammer's address list, you can replace the at-sign with (at). You can also embed spaces in the address. The script will then convert the address back to the correct format. emailto must have a value. The other fields are optional. If the form contains a field named useraddr and also one named email then the email field will be treated as an ordinary field, with no special function, even when no email address is entered into the useraddr field. All the field names that have a special meaning must always be in lower case and be spelled exactly as shown. All the other fields in the form have their name and value presented in the generated email. These are laid out in the following way: <name> - the field name enclosed in angle brackets on its own line the value of the field on one or more following lines. This is repeated for each field name/value pair that is present. Any field named email will also be included in this list whether or not it is used to hold the form submitter's email address. Some important notes concerning the form submitter's email address If you have a useraddr field in your form and the form submitter enters a valid email address then you can send a reply email directly, using the standard reply option in your email software. But if the form submitter does not give a valid address or if the address is entered into a field which the script is unable to recognise then a dummy Reply-To address will be constructed. This dummy address will start with the phrase 'NOT_FOR_REPLY'. This constructed address will be a valid email address but any email sent to this address will not be received by the form submitter. For this reason you should not normally set up an autoresponder to reply to form emails. If you ask form submitters to supply their email address in a field with a name other than useraddr or email then, if detected by the script, this will be used as the Reply-To address but you should check that the expected form field is being used. Remember that email is simply being used as a convenient way of sending you the information entered into the form. The email is constructed by the script and sent from a Thalasson web site - it is not sent from the form submitter's computer. It follows from this that you should not regard this as an ordinary email sent by the form submitter. In particular, you will only have the form submitter's email address if they have entered it in the form. It is just possible that where the form submitter's address is being presented in the useraddr field the form email may be rejected by some email filtering systems. If you suspect that this is happening then rename the form field to 'email'. (Why can this happen? - Because the script, when it takes the form submitter's address from the 'useraddr' form field, tries to construct the email header lines as far as possible to present the email as coming from the form submitter. Although the headers so constructed conform to the relevant Internet protocols, an email filtering system may regard this as an inconsistency since the email actually comes from a web site.) Testing Once you have written the HTML code for your form and its web page then you should always do a test form submission. If you get a page returned that contains a heading 'Problem with form' then take the appropriate action to solve the problem as described under the heading 'Diagnosis of problem'. If you cannot resolve the problem then you can use the form below to ask for help. If you have a useraddr field in your form and everything apparently works but you receive no email then rename this field to email. Example of an HTML form that makes use of the free mailform facility <FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="http://www.qkxyq.com/thalasson/mailform.cgi"> <P>Your name: <INPUT NAME=username> <P>Your email address: <INPUT NAME=useraddr> <P>Please enter your comments here<BR> <TEXTAREA NAME=comments ROWS=5 COLS=60></TEXTAREA> <INPUT NAME=subject TYPE=HIDDEN VALUE="Comments from user"> <INPUT NAME=nextpage TYPE=HIDDEN VALUE="www.wijjettz.com/thankyou.html"> <INPUT NAME=emailto TYPE=HIDDEN VALUE="webmaster (at) wijjettz.com"> <P><INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE=Send><INPUT TYPE=RESET VALUE="Clear form"> </FORM> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now available, a new service, Mailform Extra Mailform Extra's features include: testing of the entered form field values having customised acceptance and rejection response web pages ability to send up to three emails customised formats for the emails sent » user guide -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conditions of use of the free mailform service This service is used on the understanding that PJB Software will not be liable for any direct, indirect or consequential damages arising out of its use. This is a confidential service. PJB Software, in order to monitor performance and the quality of service, log a limited amount of information. Apart from some aggregated statistical data, this information is normally deleted a few days after collection. No information so obtained will be passed to any third party unless PJB Software is required to do so by law. This confidentiality does not apply to the name of a web site that uses the service or to the URL of any web page containing a form which uses the service. PJB Software reserve the right to withdraw the free service at any time and without notice from any user. |