How To Setup FormMail

To make use of it, you need to write an HTML form that refers to the FormMail script. Here's an example which will send mail to the address 'feedback@your.domain' when someone submits the form:

<form method="post" action="http://formmail.cshore.com/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl">
<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="feedback@your.domain">
Please enter your comments<br>
<input type="text" name="feedback"><br>
<input type="submit">
</form>

NOTE: You must email your domain name to noc@cshore.com so it can be added to our referrers list to enable this feature.

Please note this service is only available to Cybershore customers.

FORM CONFIGURATION

See how the hidden 'recipient' input in the example above told formmail who to send the mail to ? This is how almost all of formmail's configuration works. Here's the full list of things you can set with hidden form inputs:

recipient	The email address to which the form submission should be sent. If you would like it copied to more than one recipient then you can separate multiple email addresses with commas, for example: <input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="you@your.domain,me@your.domain"> THIS IS A REQUIRED FIELD!
subject	The subject line for the email. For example: <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="From the feedback form">
redirect	If this value is present it should be a URL, and the user will be redirected there after a successful form submission. For example: <input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="http://www.your.domain/foo.html"> If you don't specify a redirect URL then instead of redirecting formmail will generate a success page telling the user that their submission was successful.
bgcolor	The background color for the success page.
background	The URL of the background image for the success page.
text_color	The text color for the success page.
link_color	The link color for the success page.
vlink_color	The vlink color for the success page.
alink_color	The alink color for the success page.
title	The title for the success page.
return_link_url	The target URL for a link at the end of the success page. This is normally used to provide a link from the success page back to your main page or back to the page with the form on. For example: <input type="hidden" name="return_link_url" value="/home.html">
return_link_title	The label for the return link. For example: <input type="hidden" name="return_link_title" value="Back to my home page">
sort	This sets the order in which the submitted form inputs will appear in the email and on the success page. It can be the string 'alphabetic' for alphabetic order, or the string "order:" followed by a comma separated list of the input names, for example: <input type="hidden" name="sort" value="order:name,email,age,comments"> If "order:" is used you must supply the names of all of the fields that you want to be in the body of the mail message.
print_config	This is mainly used for debugging, and if set it causes formmail to include a dump of the specified configuration settings in the email. For example: <input type="hidden" name="print_config" value="title,sort"> ... will include whatever values you set for 'title' and 'sort' (if any) in the email.
required	This is a list of fields that the user must fill in before they submit the form. If they leave any of these fields blank then they will be sent back to the form to try again. For example: <input type="hidden" name="required" value="name,comments">
missing_fields_redirect	If this is set, it must be a URL, and the user will be redirected there if any of the fields listed in 'required' are left blank. Use this if you want finer control over the the error that the user see's if they miss out a field.
print_blank_fields	If this is set then fields that the user left blank will be included in the email. Normally, blank fields are suppressed to save space. As well as all these hidden inputs, there are a couple of non-hidden inputs which get special treatment:
email	If one of the things you're asking the user to fill in is their email address and you call that input 'email', formmail will use it as the address part of the sender's email address in the email.
realname	If one of the things you're asking the user to fill in is their full name and you call that input 'realname', formmail will use it as the name part of the sender's email address in the email.