mailforms
abstract
This service is intended to provide a campus-wide WWW form -- Email gateway -- by allowing the contents of any HTML Form (once filled out) to be sent to a campus email address specified by the form owner.
Any campus user can create such Forms, and a given user may have more than one Form. Your forms can have any fields that you wish. They may be comprised of any combination of the HTML Form elements, and there is no limit to how many you may put in a form, except those imposed on you by your server software. There are just a few restrictions on the HTML Form and what they have to have in them.
Why Use MailForm?
MailForm enables you to add a feedback form to your World Wide Web pages. The FORM that you place on your WWW page will be a HTML document, under your control , which will be stored in the directory where you keep your other HTML materials (images and text). The FORM will be processed on the SyraCWIS server (aka, www.syr.edu). The following directions will be easier to understand, if you keep this distinction in mind.
- Create a HTML Document
- This document must be within your personal 'web server' space. This
document will become your FORM, when given appropriate
HTML Tags.
You may wish to start by copying one of the MailForm Examples into your personal Home Page by performing a "Save as" command from the "File" menu of your browser.
Alternatively, you may simply wish to examine the content of the MailForm Examples (This can be done within Netscape by selecting "Source" from the "View" menu).
- Required Tags within your FORM (besides the normal FORM Tags).
- These are critical! Without the first Tag, the 'MailForm' program
won't be used to process your Form. Without the second Tag, 'MailForm'
won't know whom to send the email.
<form action="http://www.syr.edu/cgi-bin/mailform" method="POST"><input type="hidden" name="MailFormTo" value="Your_Account@machine.syr.edu">
- Recommended Tags within your MailForm Document
- This is a useful way for you to distinguish between the results of
different HTML Forms.
<input type="hidden" name="MailFormSubject" value="Subject Phrase"> - Click here to view a very short,
but complete MailForm FORM example.
- Optional Tags
If you have any questions, please send an email to SyraCWIS at webmaster@help.syr.edu.