I agree with you, Hans. I figured I would ask to make sure I was not missing something obvious. Thank you for your help.
Best, Jon On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Hans Bracker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
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