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Hi,

Freeola provide code to set up a form on your webs which lets people send you their name, email etc

They also provide autoresponders so that if someone emails DIRECT to one of my email addresses, they get my specified reply at once.

BUT is it possible to set things so that if someone sent me their email via the contact form, they automatically receive the reply I specify TO THE EMAIL THEY HAVE ENTERED ON THE FORM?

Freeola's response the above enquiry was:

"I believe by adding the same Form to Mail code you have in reverse, you can automatically send a response when they submit the form on your web site"

Anyone got a more specific description of what to do?

Thanks, Andy

Gary789 wrote:
Is it possible to add a subject line on the autoresponder ?
If so, How ?

Hi Gary789 and welcome to the forums.

You've 'woken up' an old thread here(!) so I'm not sure if your query relates to forms(formmail) or normal Freeola email?!

If it's normal email then I don't believe it is possible to change the email subject - it might have changed since I last looked though...

If it's formmail then yes you should be able to do this with a custom script.


NB. There's no need to 'double post' especially within a few minutes! :¬P
[s]Hmmm...[/s]

Is it possible to add a subject line on the autoresponder ?
If so, How ?

LukeM wrote:
> McLong's response is perfectly correct, however...


Yep, that's what I saw when I tested it! ;¬)

I can recommend the free Tectite formmail script for people that want more than the standard Freeola one. This script can do just about everything!






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McLong's response is perfectly correct, however it is part of our form 2 mail system that only Freeola e-mails can be used to send through form 2 mail for security reasons.

So if your customers fill out the form with a valid Freeola address it will work fine, however they may not necessarily have one. The best way to do this would be to use a custom PHP script using the mail() function. If you have any questions about that, please feel free to make another post in the forums!

andychains wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Freeola provide code to set up a form on your webs which lets
> people send you their name, email etc
>
> They also provide autoresponders so that if someone emails
> DIRECT to one of my email addresses, they get my specified reply
> at once.
>
> BUT is it possible to set things so that if someone sent me
> their email via the contact form, they automatically receive the
> reply I specify TO THE EMAIL THEY HAVE ENTERED ON THE FORM?
>
> Freeola's response the above enquiry was:
>
> "I believe by adding the same Form to Mail code you have in
> reverse, you can automatically send a response when they submit
> the form on your web site"
>
> Anyone got a more specific description of what to do?
>
> Thanks, Andy

Don't quite get this, but the following code works for me:



<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="recipient" VALUE="***@***.com">
<input type="hidden" name="from" value="**@***.com">
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="SUBJECT" VALUE="Enquiry">
<input type="hidden" name="require" value="name,e-mail,message">
<input type="hidden" name="success_redirect" value="http://www.***.com/thanks.htm">

It may help :-)

Hi McLong,
It's not my query, but this sounded interesting so I thought I would give it a try.

For me it fails with:

"The form was not submitted for the following reasons:
Invalid from address ([email protected]), please ensure you set your from field to a valid Freeola hosted email address.
Please use your browser's back button to return to the form and try again."

If you managed to get this to work could you past the full 'form' HTML please?

Thanks.

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Hi Andy,

After a quick look into it, one way of doing it would be to replace this line of your code:

<input type="text" size="56" name="[B]email[/B]">

with:

<input type="text" size="56" name="[B]from[/B]">

E-mails sent from your form will now appear as being from the person's e-mail address. This way, your autoresponder will reply to the address the user types in.

The only slight problem is that the user's e-mail address will now no longer appear in the e-mail content.

Hi,

Freeola provide code to set up a form on your webs which lets people send you their name, email etc

They also provide autoresponders so that if someone emails DIRECT to one of my email addresses, they get my specified reply at once.

BUT is it possible to set things so that if someone sent me their email via the contact form, they automatically receive the reply I specify TO THE EMAIL THEY HAVE ENTERED ON THE FORM?

Freeola's response the above enquiry was:

"I believe by adding the same Form to Mail code you have in reverse, you can automatically send a response when they submit the form on your web site"

Anyone got a more specific description of what to do?

Thanks, Andy