Hi Jon, Thursday, March 8, 2012, 6:58:06 PM, you wrote: > One of my authors would like me to set up a Fox form so that when a visitor > fills out the form, he or she is sent a confirmation message using an > e-mail address entered in the form. This obviously presents various > potential spam-related problems, but say if the form were in a > password-protected area, is it possible for me to configure FoxNotify to do > this?
I do not see how this can be done. FoxNotify is based on PmWiki's Notify, really a version with a few more possibilities. Both use lists of email addresses on some notify list page, or the address needs to be given in config. So not wanting to break that, and not knowing how anyway, the only way would be to have your form add the email address to the notify page (the "target" of the foxmail markup) before foxmail gets going (and it gets going last). If it is any help, foxmail can accept more than one list page as target, so you could add the confirmation address to a list page based on the sender. That would generate lots of list pages, which would need deleting sometime. Otherwise you need to remove the address afterwards from the FoxNotify list, if you use one list page. Altogether a rather awkward approach. So, in short, there is no provision to take email addresses directly from input. And as you noted, the reason is security and spam protection. Personally I find it much better to acknowledge a received email manually. That way the sender knows you actually got his request and you responded. Best regards, Hans www.softflow.co.uk _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
