what are the best form to email scripts?

site rebuild stage 2, under the hood

[Eric_Jarvis]

I'm struggling to shift our forms back to the basic PERL from to mail scripts, having dumped the FP generated webbot monstrosity that works one time in ten

whilst I batter away at it I thought I best ask if anyone has favourite form to email scripts

I can add any number of PERL modules to the cgi-bin...and if they require tampering with I don't mind "getting my hands dirty"...but cgi isn't "my field" by any stretch of the imagination

[ggrot]

Personally, I'd suggest just using php if thats an option. All the variables that the form sends in are translated into normal strings in the form of $variablename. Then to send a mail, I believe it is simply the command:
mail(recipient in a string,parameters in a string,body in a string);

And for the result page, just use normal html as php can coexist with html.

Thats probably not the answer you were searching for, but its my $0.02.

[mivox]

For straight form-to-email, I prefer to keep it as simple as possible. I usually stick with formmail. Teeny, fast, ultra-simple script.

Of course, all it does is send form input to your email box, with absolute minimum processing, but you can still configure the output a bit for cosmetic purposes.

[john316]

formmail by Matt Wright for basic, quick.

Bformmail is my choice; it has many more features and is just formmail with more bells and whistles.

[infosheet.com...]

[bill]

I've used the free AlienForm2 [cgi.tj] script for several years and been happy with the results.

[Eric_Jarvis]

I'm not going to try PHP...some time soon, but for now I'll stick with PERL since I'm confident with it

I also have to format the submissions at least a bit...I'm not the only one who has to deal with them...so they need to be easy to respond to

I'm wary of using anything based on Matt's form mail 1.6 since I was under the impression there were problems with versions lower than 2...though Bformmail looks very good...as does AlienForm2

thanks

[skirril]

Another down-to-earth, simple script is cgiemail, which can be found on [web.mit.edu...]

Its as good as any, fast, uncomplicated.

[andrey_sea]

Eric,

Actually there was something wrong with formmail 1.6, it could have been used to spam people from your site. Now the version 1.9 of formmail has a parameter that lets you specify the only e-mail addresses to which people cand send mail from your site.

So if anyone uses formmail it is a must have update.

[gellyfish]

I would suggest that you look at the FormMail program at:

[nms-cgi.sourceforge.net...]

which fixes all of the problems with Matt Wrights original FormMail program.

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