Email form - send copy to sender

HTML EMAIL FORM Sender

[Ricky09]

Sorry I am a newbie..

I've developed a html email form along with some input value such as name, date, email and phone. How do I send a copy of his/her input back to their email?

This is on a static website.

Please help. Thx

[edited by: Ricky09 at 7:04 pm (utc) on Dec. 11, 2009]

[incrediBILL]

You really can't do it from a static website.

Sending email requires a PHP or PERL script at a minimum, and the email address you're sending it to needs to be hidden in the server, not exposed in the forum, otherwise spam harvesters will find your email address and that account will quickly become useless.

[swa66]

Moreover take great care with spammers finding any form that can send email to some address they can supply as they'll use it to send their crap using your server (till you get banned).

[piatkow]

For that reason my host will only process forms that are sending to a mailbox on the customer's own domain.

If you can't process the form on your own site then there are third party processors who will handle this but not all will let you send a copy elsewhere. Don't pay anybody for this without verifying that it does exactly what you want. As a general rule assume that if they don't advertise it then they don't do it.