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Hi,

I’ve been experimenting with a form for people to invite others to the site, so I basically just used the example Email Contact Form with ‘recipients’ and it seems to work fine, but I would like of course like my visits to choose who to send to (friends email address). So I added a ‘to’ according to the instruction and here is my code:

{exp:email:contact_form user_recipients="false" charset="utf-8"}

    <label for="name">Your Name: </label>

    <input type="text" id="name" name="name" size="40" maxlength="35" value="" /></p>

    <label for="from">Your Email:</label>

    <input type="text" id="from" name="from" size="40" maxlength="35" value="" /></p>

    <label for="to">Friends email: </label>

    <input type="text" name="to" size="40" /></p>

    <label for="subject">Subject:</label>

    <input type="text" id="subject" name="subject" size="40" value="Invitation" /></p>

    <label for="message">Message:</label>

    <textarea id="message" name="message" rows="18" cols="40">something written here</textarea></p>

{if captcha}
Please enter the word you see in the image below:
{captcha}

<input type="text" name="captcha" value="" maxlength="20" /></p>
{/if}

        <input name="submit" type='submit' value='Submit Form' /></p>

{/exp:email:contact_form}

But when I try to send an invite from this form to one of my email accounts, I never receive anything. Can you see any reason why this is not working?

I’m on EE 1.7 (Build:  20101018)

Thanks,

Hi, Kreativ.

Take a look at this doc page:

http://expressionengine.com/legacy_docs/cp/admin/system_preferences/email_configuration.html

Make sure you have Webmaster or site name for auto-generated emails set, some mail servers will cause your emails to be considered spam.

Try using the Communicate Module. Can you receive emails sent that way?

I’ve filled out all the fields for email configuration and tested sending an email via Communication Module and it all worked fine.
I put the debugger on when i sent a message using the Communication Module and this was the log if that can help:
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Debugging Message
220-SYDS9-N2S.hosting-services.net.au ESMTP Exim 4.69 #1 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:40:16 +1100 220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited, 220 and/or bulk e-mail.
hello: 250-SYDS9-N2S.hosting-services.net.au Hello rev6-syds9-n2s.hosting-services.net.au [112.140.181.33]
250-SIZE 52428800
250-8BITMIME
250-PIPELINING
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250-STARTTLS
250 HELP
from: 250 OK
to: 250 Accepted
data: 354 Enter message, ending with “.” on a line by itself
250 OK id=1Q5RTM-00028U-Ta
quit: 221 SYDS9-N2S.hosting-services.net.au closing connection
Your message has been successfully sent using smtp
————————-

I’ve checked if I’ve received anything in the spam folder of my mail box - nothing there.

Kreativ,

user_recipients="false"

You need this set to true as per the docs if you wish to use the to field

there you go, thanks John!

Would it be possible to send HTML emails from this form? I would like people to post an invitation to others and the body content to be preset. Sending from Communication with HTML on, it works fine, so this should work as well? Well for the moment I just receive the code. Maybe something wrong I do…?
http://alturl.com/qodx5

Thanks again for your support

Kreativ,

in your Email Configuration you can change the format of the email from plain text to HTML but so far as something more advanced then no there isn’t this functionality

You may find something on devot-ee.com though

Yes, I understand. I don’t need more advanced, just want to make sure the contact_form can send in HTML.
The Communicate works fine sending HTML, but not the contact_form - is that an issue with my EE 1.7? Should I be able to use HTML in contact_form if I choose it from CP › System Preferences › Email Configuration › Default Mail Format › HTML?

Hi, Kreativ. The basic contact form won’t work with HTML. As John mentioned, you might be able to find something over on Devot-ee.com.