steve1 Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 Hi, I have used dreamweaver to do my web site and was wondering if anyone could tell me how I could make an email form for people to subscribe to me site by clicking on a button, which would bring up a form with the information i require from them and the form could be emailed to me with all the information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaseytraeger Posted June 17, 2004 Share Posted June 17, 2004 I use a script called "Jack's FormMail". You can find it at www.dtheatre.com/scripts/. It's very easy to configure and implement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surefire Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 Just had to chime in and say that unless the code (Jack's formmail) has changed substantially since the last time I looked at it, then I'd stay away from it. Quite simply, it's a clone of the super popular 'Matt's formmail.pl' which has also been banned due to exploits by spammers. A good rule of thumb is that if the recipient of the email form is set up in the html code of the form and passed to the script as posted data (as it is with both these scripts mentioned) then it's insecure and can easily be used to send out spam that appears to be from your site. Some at TCH know that I have authored a mail form script, and my name is Jack, but I am NOT the author of the one referenced by kaseytraeger. Just a coincidence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annie Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 There are spam bots there specifically harvesting e-mail addresses from the HTML of mail forms of that type. Result: Lots of spam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevevan Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 FWIW... You might want to try surefire's script found here. I use his script and it's very easy and simple to set up and he provides great support. As far as combatting those email-harvesting bots, check out this this site. They encode email address into JavaScript that you put into your html. As far as your webpage visitors know, there is absolutely no difference in what they see. Hope this gives you some ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted June 30, 2004 Author Share Posted June 30, 2004 Thank you for your help steve. I will try the programs that you recomended. Steve1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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