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FAQs
CGI
Email Tutorial
The
cgiemail program resides in our root system for you to use.
You can find more about cgiemail at the
cgiemail home page at MIT.
To
modify an existing HTML form to work with the script called
'cgiemail' you will need to use the following form action
within your HTML code:
<form
method="post" action="/cgi-bin/cgiemail/mailform.txt">
If you are a FrontPage user with the FrontPage Extensions
installed on your site, you may need to use this path instead:
<form
method="post" action="/cgibin/cgiemail/mailform.txt">
(The
difference is that you are using 'cgibin' instead of 'cgi-bin'.)
The
script named cgiemail is located in the server's cgi-bin directory.
Once a web page visitor clicks the "Submit" button on your
form, the script cgiemail runs and in turn calls a text file
(or template) called mailform.txt. The template defines the
format by which the submitted form content is to be sent via
email.
In
the above case, the mailform.txt file is in your DocumentRoot
directory. You can name mailform.txt anyname.txt and
put it anywhere in your account. You just need to change the
path in the above html accordingly so that the cgiemail script
can find it.
You
can create the template in a basic text editor (such as MS
Notepad) beginning with the following two lines:
To:
username@yourdomain.com
From: username@yourdomain.com
Subject: Information Request
Substitute
the desired recipient email address and subject above. If
your form asks for the email address of the visitor (be sure
to name this field: email), add this as the second line of
the template:
From:
[email]
There
can be no blank lines at the top of the file and no blank
spaces at the beginning of these header lines.
Next,
you will need to add ALL field names within the HTML form
to the template in a form similar to the following:
To:
username@yourdomain.com
Subject: Information Request
Name [name]
Address [address]
Phone [telno]
If
you want a specific web page to load when the email is successfully
sent, such as a thank you note (thanks.html), add the follow
code to your HTML form:
<input
type="hidden" name="success" value="http://your_domain.com/thanks.html">
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Can Do It for You
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Please contact us at
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