FormMail

 
 
 
 

 

Overview

FormMail is a generic WWW form to e-mail gateway, which will parse the results of any form and send them to the specified user. This script has many formatting and operational options, most of which can be specified through the form, meaning you don't need any programming knowledge or multiple scripts for multiple forms. This also makes FormMail the perfect system-wide solution for allowing users form-based user feedback capabilities without the risks of allowing freedom of CGI access. There are several downloading options available below and more information on this script can be found in the Readme file.

Readme

The Readme files at Matt's Script Archive contain detailed installation, configuration and usage instructions, which take you step by step from putting the scripts on your system to using them in your web pages. You should read these through and keep them by you when setting up or installing any MSA script. It is probably not a bad idea to print them out. Each compressed script package contains a plain text version of the Readme file, however the links below will take you to their HTML counterparts.

Downloading

FormMail can be downloaded in several different formats, or you can even have it mailed to you as a uuencoded file. Click on one of the links below to the appropriately compressed file and download options will appear.
    • formmail.tar.gz (11.8K) 
    • formmail.zip (12.9K) 
    • formmail.tar.Z (18.4K) 
    • formmail.tar (51.2K) 
    • You can also view each file individually:

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      FormMail.pl 
      The perl script which takes the form results and sends them to the specified email address. 
      README 
      Includes installation instructions and a detailed description of how to set it up to work on your server. 

Ports of FormMail to other Operating Systems

Because of FormMail's popularity, it has been ported to several other operating systems by others on the Internet. If you aren't on a Unix machine, which FormMail was originally written for, check below for the appropriate version. If you have ported FormMail to another OS, please let us know.

Frequently Asked Questions

The Frequently Asked Questions Archive at MSA is the easiest and fastest way to get help. It contains a list of the most commonly asked questions as well as their answers. Check these out before you seek other means of help, as your question may be answered here already. 

FormMail in Action

If you wish to see examples of Matt's Script Archive's CGI scripts used around the internet, you only need to check the Scripts Around the World section. See what the scripts look like in action on real web pages, but be considerate as these are actual implementations. 

FormMail Extras

Extras are customizations, example modifications or anything else which helps you add-on or better utilize your FormMail script. FormMail extras include scripts which have been derived from FormMail and do various other tasks.
      BFormMail 
      This script contains several additions to FormMail v1.6, including a courtesy reply e-mail to the visitor, the ability to add fields to a flatfile database, and support for fax to e-mail services.

       

       

      yForm.cgi 
      The modificatons let you specify whether or not you wish to send the courtesy reply and whether or not you wish to log all form submissions in a database file located on your sever.

       

       

      XFormMail 
      Allows for personalized and automated e-mail responses to form submissions.

       

       

      Mike Wheeler's MailFile Script 
      Minimalized FormMail script which allows you to e-mail files to users.

       

       

      SendCGI 
      FormMail spin-off allowing you to e-mail files to users.

       

       

      Emailrobot 
      Emailrobot allows you to automatically process emailed form output into a database and generate a personalized auto-response based on the form input of the sender. 

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