Using cgiemail

To modify an existing HTML form to work with the script cgiemail you will need to use the following form action within your HTML code:

<form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/cgiemail/mailform.txt">

This code calls the presinstalled script cgiemail which is in the server's cgi-bin directory once the web page visitor clicks the "submit" button. The script cgiemail in turn calls a text file (or template) called mailform.txt. The template defines the format by which the submitted form content is to be sent via email.

You can create the template in a basic text editor beginning with the following two lines:

   To: username@yourdomain.com
   Subject: Information Request

Substitute the desired recipient email address and subject above. Next, you will need to add ALL field names within the HTML form to the template in a form similar to the following:

   To: username@yourdomain.com
   Subject: Information Request

   Name            [name]
   Address         [address]
   Phone           [telno]

As long as each form field name is contained within brackets ("[ ]") within the template, the email should be sent successfully and contain all submitted data. I suggest you use all lowercase field names within your HTML form and template. If you want a specific web page to load when the email is successfully sent, such as a thank you note, add the follow code to your HTML form:

• <input type="hidden" name="success" value="http://your_domain.com/thanks.html">

Substitute the URL of the file you wish to load after form data is submitted. The field name in this case MUST be "success", but does not need to be added to the template.

• For Frontpage users the path will be same:

<form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/cgiemail/mailform.txt">

• For Secured Server on Unix the path would be:

<form method="post" action="https://www.hostcentric.com/cgi-bin/cgiemail/<yourdomain>/mailform.txt">

• For Secured Server with Frontpage the path would be:

<form method="post" action="https://www.hostcentric.com/cgi-bin/cgiemail/<yourdomain>/frontpage/mailform.txt">

IMPORTANT THINGS TO REMEMBER:

• There are only two parts to your email forms, the Form itself & the .txt template. The CGIEMAIL program resides in our root system for you to use.
• The .txt file can be named anything.txt and placed anywhere in your site.

<form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/cgiemail/mailform.txt"> the mailform.txt file is in your root directory

<form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/cgiemail/forms/mailform.txt"> the mailform.txt file is in directory called forms

• When using secure server, make sure you are using the proper server name.i.e. www, www2, etc

Try our test email form.

See the source of the testform.txt template.