Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links - and mail sender
Designer, I'd advise you to use some comprehensive PHP mailing libraries (classes): * PHPMailer (http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/) * Swift mailer (http://www.swiftmailer.org/) Regards, on 10/19/2007 01:43 PM Designer said the following: Ray Leventhal wrote: Patrick H. Lauke wrote: my approach is usually not to put the email address on there and instead provide a contact form, one major annoyance of contact forms for me: as a sender, i don't have a copy of the email in my email client's sent items folder. depending on the complexity of what i'm emailing, this can be quite annoying. P Good point, Patrick. I'll certainly consider offering a checkbox as a UI option for 'send me a copy of the contents of this form'. ~R I'd certainly be interested if this could be done in php by assigning the user's mail address as a string, then posting to it. Anyone done that? -- Abdulrahman Al-Otaiba *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links - and mail sender
Ray Leventhal wrote: Patrick H. Lauke wrote: my approach is usually not to put the email address on there and instead provide a contact form, one major annoyance of contact forms for me: as a sender, i don't have a copy of the email in my email client's sent items folder. depending on the complexity of what i'm emailing, this can be quite annoying. P Good point, Patrick. I'll certainly consider offering a checkbox as a UI option for 'send me a copy of the contents of this form'. ~R I'd certainly be interested if this could be done in php by assigning the user's mail address as a string, then posting to it. Anyone done that? -- Bob www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links - and mail sender
Mike at Green-Beast.com skrev: That said, even though people are the most difficult to control, they don't seem to be the real problem. The problem seems to be with 'bots so that's the form's main focus. You're right, bots are the real problem to focus on. /anders *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links - and mail sender
Hello Anders, Is there any way to protect this from being used as a way to send out spam? You can't really know that people enter their own emailaddress ... A person could use it to send the copy to someone else, but then again people are the most difficult to control. I do offer an IP blacklist with this to deal with people if necessary (a weak control at best since not everyone has a static IP). A robot shouldn't be able to do it, though. The form has a number of measures to prevent 'bot submissions and exploitation, one of which is a honeypot (a baited input) which someone had mentioned before. That said, even though people are the most difficult to control, they don't seem to be the real problem. The problem seems to be with 'bots so that's the form's main focus. Cheers. Mike - Original Message - From: Anders Nawroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 10:46 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links - and mail sender Hi! Mike at Green-Beast.com skrev: I offer that in my contact form. It's a config option. The contact form owner can enable/disable offering a get-a-copy option to his/her visitors. Is there any way to protect this from being used as a way to send out spam? You can't really know that people enter their own emailaddress ... /anders *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links - and mail sender
Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote: Good point, Patrick. I'll certainly consider offering a checkbox as a UI option for 'send me a copy of the contents of this form'. I'd certainly be interested if this could be done in php by assigning the user's mail address as a string, then posting to it. Anyone done that? I offer that in my contact form. It's a config option. The contact form owner can enable/disable offering a get-a-copy option to his/her visitors. http://green-beast.com/blog/?page_id=71 (Stand alone version) http://green-beast.com/blog/?page_id=136 (WordPress version) Cheers. Mike Cherim Thanks Mike, that looks wonderful! (I've downloaded the zip!) -- Bob www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links - and mail sender
Good point, Patrick. I'll certainly consider offering a checkbox as a UI option for 'send me a copy of the contents of this form'. I'd certainly be interested if this could be done in php by assigning the user's mail address as a string, then posting to it. Anyone done that? I offer that in my contact form. It's a config option. The contact form owner can enable/disable offering a get-a-copy option to his/her visitors. http://green-beast.com/blog/?page_id=71 (Stand alone version) http://green-beast.com/blog/?page_id=136 (WordPress version) Cheers. Mike Cherim *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Encoded mailto links - and mail sender
Hi! Mike at Green-Beast.com skrev: I offer that in my contact form. It's a config option. The contact form owner can enable/disable offering a get-a-copy option to his/her visitors. Is there any way to protect this from being used as a way to send out spam? You can't really know that people enter their own emailaddress ... /anders *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
