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How to email data from a website
using a Web Form
How do I configure
FormMail?
What is FormMail?
FormMail is a universal WWW form to E-mail gateway. There is
only one required form input tag which must be specified in
order for this script to work with your existing forms. Other
hidden configuration fields can also be used to enhance the
operation of FormMail on your site. The end of this file has a
history that will explain the various changes FormMail has made
throughout its lifetime.
How do I configure my
Form?
There are only 3 steps that need to be followed
in order to make use of the FormMail script.
1. The URL of where the script is located using the POST
function.
After you have added a Form into your webpage, go to the
Form Properties > Options and change it to the
POST function using the following URL:
http://www.ehost.co.za/cgi-bin/clients/FormMail.pl
2. The recipient to where you want the email to go to.
Go to the Form Properties again, this time click on
advance and add a hidden field called recipient with the
the value of your email address or where you would like the
email to be sent to.
3. The redirect page where you want to display Thank You
Add a hidden field called redirect and add the URL where
the thank you page is located.
http://www.mywebsite.co.za/thank_you.html (example)
When you are done with the above steps, please
contact us to
add the recipient email address to our recipient list.
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