7201cgi-mailer - HTML Form mailerhttp://www.unimelb.edu.au/cgi-mailer/cgi-mailer is a simple system enabling users to have HTML form input formatted in a user-defined way and sent to an email address, without needing a new CGI program for each new HTML form or any user access to the cgi program. cgi-mailer does not need to reside on the same server as the HTML forms that use it, so you only need to install it once for your entire organisation.CGI and Perl > Scripts and Programs > Form ProcessorsOct 10, 2006
This version presumes you have a host with the "CGI.pm" module installed. This script will take the entered information from a FORM and sends it to your inbox. There is 1 optional part that will create a autoresponse email to the vistor's entered email address.
The @-Manager is a feature-rich free CGI script HTML form handler and database manager. It offer much more than typical formmail scripts. It gives you a complete solution to help you capture, organize and communicate with your web site visitors and e-mail contacts
With Novice Forms Processor, you configure your email address that forms data is sent to in the actual script. This Prevents email harvesting programs from harvesting your email, and putting you on a spam list. This also creates a higher level of security by preventing un-authorized person(s) from using your forms processor to spam. (A common vulnerability in some forms processor's.) This also adds privacy, by preventing visitors from seeing your email address. In addition you will also have the ability to configure which web sites can post information
Feedback from users is important to most commercial websites (and some hobby/information sites). The simplest way to allow feedback is to publish an email address and, possibly create a link with an url that reads something like mailto:wilma. flintstone@bedrock.net. When a user clicks the link, their default email client (e.g. Outlook Express) will open.
For many sites, this is sufficient. However, email spammers collect email addresses from websites using automated programs so publishing an email address this way is to be avoided. (It is possible to use javascript to avoid the spam problem but this falls outside the scope of this discussion.)
The next method of providing feedback is to create a form that the user fills in and sends to you. This has the advantage that you can request specific data. You create the form with the following HTML code
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