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Perch Form to Send Email
I have a contact form made with perch:forms.
I had gone to admin > settings > email and received an email successfully.
Went into forms > contact > form options, checking "Send response via email" and supplying the same email as used in the previous test. I am not receiving any mail.
I believe I'm using the field brackets correctly, however would an incorrect bracket result in a failure to send/receive the email?
I had found the thread: contact-form-results-can-they-be-emailed-to-the-client The problem here just seemed to be checking the send email box?
Are you setting a 'from' address dynamically?
Hmm here is what I have:
Email address(es) : me@myemail.com
Email subject line : {subject}
Send from : {firstname} {lastname}
Send from address : {email}
Email introduction text : (blank)
Is the server responsible for handling email for the address entered in
{email}?If not, the message will look a lot like spam and probably won't get through.
I'm sorry Drew, I'm lost on your question.
Send from address : {email}should be the email address of the visitor wanting to contact the site owner, correct?Should I not be more concerned with the server's interaction with
Email address(es) : me@myemail.com?If the from address is the address of the person completing the form, that address is not linked to the sending server. So it may look like spam.
Alright. Is this an issue I should contact the host about?
Thanks for your time!
Not really, it's more a fact of life. If I sent an email from my computer, through my email account with my From address set as your email address, that email would likely get caught as spam. That's because my email server isn't set up to handle email for your email address - it's set up for my email addresses.
By setting
Send from address : {email}you're basically doing the same thing. The server you're sending from (your web server) isn't authorised to send email for every email address that could ever be entered into your form. The truth is that the email isn't from that user. It's from your website.I'm sorry, I'm still not getting it. Am I doing something wrong with the Form Options? Is this not the way it was designed to work?
Should I instead do something like the following?
That's right.
Could one do something like this to also send a confirmation of form submission to the submitter?