Form - Feedback - email won't work

J

Jill

My feedback form won't email me with results. I followed
FP help instructions, too. It says it needs a script -
my ISP support FP extensions. Maybe I'm missing
something here. Please help.
Jill
 
M

Mike Mueller

Jill

1. Check with your ISP to see if the FPSE are setup for
email forms. Many are not

2. Consider using a script instead of the FP form handler
for email. If you use the FP form handler then you are
inviting spam as the email address appears in the page code

Mike

Jill wrote:
: My feedback form won't email me with results. I followed
: FP help instructions, too. It says it needs a script -
: my ISP support FP extensions. Maybe I'm missing
: something here. Please help.
: Jill
 
A

Andrew Murray

Many scripts also have the email address appearing in the html page as "hidden"
fields - does this prevent spam bots harvesting the emails?

Spam bots these days seem to look for anything remotely like an email address in
the format [email protected] - not only looking for a preceding "mailto:" tag.

I've found an ASP script where you code the email into the script itself;
therefore it is not in the html page that the ASP script. generates.

http://nuts4asp.com/scrips/pfeed/ a very simple feedback form

You need to copy and paste the script into notepad, then copy into Frontpage
(code view).

The above is the ASP version

http://www.ezscripting.co.uk has a script for perl/cgi Linux/Unix users.

Same idea, code the email into the script itself, not in the form "hidden"
fields.
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

If the email address appears on the page or in the page source when viewed from a browser, the
robots have access to it.

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M

Mike Mueller

Hidden fields are only invisible to the client, not to the
browser. Therefore, they are no better than a mailto: as
far as I am concerned. I wrote my own form handler in ASP
to send the mail. No spam here.

Mike



message
: Many scripts also have the email address appearing in the
html page as "hidden"
: fields - does this prevent spam bots harvesting the
emails?
:
: Spam bots these days seem to look for anything remotely
like an email address in
: the format [email protected] - not only looking for a
preceding "mailto:" tag.
:
: I've found an ASP script where you code the email into the
script itself;
: therefore it is not in the html page that the ASP script.
generates.
:
: http://nuts4asp.com/scrips/pfeed/ a very simple feedback
form
:
: You need to copy and paste the script into notepad, then
copy into Frontpage
: (code view).
:
: The above is the ASP version
:
: http://www.ezscripting.co.uk has a script for perl/cgi
Linux/Unix users.
:
: Same idea, code the email into the script itself, not in
the form "hidden"
: fields.
:
:
message
: : > Jill
: >
: > 1. Check with your ISP to see if the FPSE are setup for
: > email forms. Many are not
: >
: > 2. Consider using a script instead of the FP form
handler
: > for email. If you use the FP form handler then you are
: > inviting spam as the email address appears in the page
code
: >
: > Mike
: >
: > Jill wrote:
: > : My feedback form won't email me with results. I
followed
: > : FP help instructions, too. It says it needs a
script -
: > : my ISP support FP extensions. Maybe I'm missing
: > : something here. Please help.
: > : Jill
: >
: >
:
:
 
A

Andrew Murray

but not in the script that processes the email?
i.e. not visible in the source - the ASP page just processes the email it doesn't
display in a browser.
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

Correct.

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