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This script
is a basic form mailer which will allow you to receive the results of any
form in email. You can use an unlimited number of form fields, and can
specify the email address that each form is sent to, as well as the
follow-up page that the user is sent to upon submission. Another neat
feature is the ability to specify one of the form fields as the subject
line. Use as many different forms as you need, all from one script. To
download click here.
Notice: A new version of AnyMail was released on November 28th, 2005. This version is a more secure version that deals with spam bot
issues. If you are using AnyMail
and have had your script attacked by spam bots, download the new version
from the download page. The next version will have much better security
measures in place however, though 1.23 does stop automated posting to the script.
It takes a little more configuration than the previous versions, but it is
well worth the effort to stop the automated posting, and forged headers.
If you
would like to have a version of AnyMail customized to fit your specific
needs, contact us and let us know just what you
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The
instructions below intentionally leave some configurations out for version
1.23 but they are available in the package itself when you download. If
you are interested in a hosted solution so that you don't have to run cgi
scripts on your server, contact us for information.
Configuration:
The first line of the script must be the correct path to Perl, as with all
such scripts:
#!/usr/bin/perl
The only other required items are,
$admin_address = 'you@yourdomain.com';
This must be set. You can specify the mailing address in each form, but
this will act as your default address so any forms that don't have the To
address specified will send to the $admin_address.
$bounce_url = "http://www.yourdomain.com";
This url will be used if someone calls the script directly, or if someone
trys to use the form from a website not listed in the @ok_domains array (
see next item ). You can set this to whatever you wish.
@okay_domains = qw(veinotte.com ad-eagle.com pass-iton.com);
This array is a space separated list of domains that can use this script. So
if you have more than one domain, add each one in this array with a space
between them. If the script is called from a domain that is not in this
list the user will be sent to the $bounce_url above.
Note: This script should not be considered
secure. It depends on the environment variable HTTP_REFERER. If the HTTP_REFERER
is defined, the script checks it against the domains in the @okay_domains
array. If it is not defined it does not check. Since the HTTP_REFERER is
not always available, this function cannot be considered completely
reliable, though it is unlikely that a site could use the program from
your server consistantly without being jumped to the bounce_url once in a
while, which makes using it from someone elses server
unattractive.
$location_of_sendmail =
'/usr/sbin/sendmail';
Did we mention this script is meant for Unix and relatives only? Set
your path to Sendmail above, and that should be it for the configurations.
$at_symbol_replacement = '~';
This option was added so that you can use the AnyMailAddress option
without putting an actual email address in the source of your html pages,
and still be able to use one copy of the script from multiple forms,
sending to multiple email addresses. So instead of using:
<input type="hidden" name="AnyMailAddress" value="yourname@example.com">
You can use this:
<input type="hidden" name="AnyMailAddress" value="yourname~example.com">
You can substitute the @ symbol with whatever you have set in the option
above. The default is a tilde (~) but you can use whatever you wish. Then
the program will take this address and replace the tilde with an actual @
symbol.
No need to put email addresses inside your html!
That's it for the script configuration!
Now for configuring your forms.
As stated, the results from any form can be sent, and you can point as
many forms are you need to at the script. There are however a couple of
field names that are reserved, and must be used correctly in each form.
FromEmail
If your form asks for the users email address, it should be named
FromEmail like so: <input type="text" name="FromEmail"
size="15">
This will use the persons email in the from field of the email that you
receive.
followup
This should be the full URL to the page you want the user sent to
after they submit, and is a hidden form field. The form field would look
something like this:
<input
type="hidden" name="followup" value="http://www.cgi.veinotte.com/thanks.htm">
AnyMailAddress
This is the address that the form will send the results to. The form
field, hidden again, will look like so:
<input type="hidden" name="AnyMailAddress" value="yourname~example.com">
Again, if you do not wish to leave actual email addresses in your html
files, change this to use whatever you have set in your configs as the $at_symbol_replacement.
If you are using ~ then set this form field like so:
<input
type="hidden" name="AnyMailAddress" value="yourname~example.com">
If you leave this field out, the script will use the $admin_address
specified in the script itself.
subject_line
The subject_line field allows you to specify any existing fields as
the subject line in the email. If you had a form with the following
fields, the form field "request" would be used as the subject
line in the email by setting the subject_line field with
value="request":
So if you had the following fields in your form:
name
request
FromEmail
followup
AnyMailAddress
You could make the subject line of the email become the value of the
request field like this:
<input type="hidden" name="subject_line"
value="request">
A complete form would look something like this:
<form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/anymail.cgi">
Field one:<input type="text" name="one" size="15"><br>
Field two:<input type="text" name="two" size="15"><br>
Field Three<input type="text" name="three" size="15"><br>
Field Four: <input type="text" name="four" size="15"><br>
Email: <input type="text" name="FromEmail" size="15"><br>
<input type="hidden" name="subject_line" value="three">
<input type="hidden" name="AnyMailAddress" value="you~yourdomain.com">
<input type="hidden" name="followup" value="http://www.yourdomain.com/thanks.htm">
<br><input type="submit" value="send">
</form>
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July 25, 2008 5:03 am AST 
