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The following steps will assist you to install a formmail.pl script:

  1. Construct a feedback form for site visitors to use to send you information.
  2. Use the ‘formmail.pl Script Generator’ to generate the formmail.pl code necessary to enable your feedback form.
  3. Simply copy and paste the formmail.pl code generated (as per the variables you selected) into the source code of the HTML document containing your feedback form.

Here is an explanation of each line appearing in the Standard formmail.pl code:

<form method="post" action="/cgi-sys/formmail.pl>

This calls the formmail.pl file (which already exists on Hetzner servers).

 

<input name="recipient" value=recipient@your-domain.co.za">

Specifies the email address of the recipient at your domain name to whom the results should be sent. Please note that the recipient email address must be an email address on your domain hosted with Hetzner.

 

<input name="subject" value="Form subject" type="hidden">


Defines the Subject Line of the email containing the feedback form results. If this is not specified, the default Subject is “WWW Form Submission”.

<input name="email" type="text">

This field is for the return E-Mail address provided by the visitor filling out the form. This is a required field if the mailbox of the recipient has an Auto-Responder enabled. The email generated by the form will appear to have come from the visitor’s email address, so if you reply, it will go directly to the visitor. If this field is not specified, the default will be ‘nobody@yourdomain.com’ (where ‘yourdomain.com’ is your registered domain with Hetzner).

 

<input type="submit">

The submit button.

<input type="reset">

The button to reset the form.

Enter the following line of additional code near the top of your form in order to enforce ‘required fields’ functionality. (“fieldname” should be substituted with the names of all fields which are mandatory):

 

<input name="required" value="fieldname1,fieldname2" type="hidden">

 

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