MPForm Settings: Mail to site owner

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MPForm Documentation: E-Mail Settings (mail to site owner)

Level of difficulty: B 

"To" address(es)

Each page with content in this field tries to send an email after a form has been submitted successfully. This maybe does not make much sense for a multi page form, because the email contains always only the fields from the current form. If you want to send an email there, hidden fields are handy to resubmit values which have been entered already on a previous page of the multi page form.

By default the email is sent to all recipients listed in the settings field "To" address(es). You can also add a field of type E-Mail recipient to the form. If such a field exists, it will be filled with the name parts of the recipients listed in the backend. If no name part exists, the email address itself is used. A field of type E-Mail recipient is a select box listing all possible recipients, from where the user can choose the apropriate recipient for his message.

Each address is required to use its own line and one of the following formats:

  Support <support@yourbussines.com>
  Marketing <marketing@yourbussines.com,marketing2@yourbussines.com>
  <hotline@yourbussines.com>

As the third example shows, it is possible to use the email address without name part and angle brackets. In this case the user will actually see the email address if he is allowed to select the recipient. If the user selects Marketing in the examples above, the form will be sent to both addresses listed within the angle brackets on this line.

"From" address

In order not to be qualified as SPAM, emails should contain a valid "From" address. The real sender is you, because the email has been sent from your own web site. You either can set a static address  (e.b. web-form@...) or you ask the user for his own email address (with a field of type E-Mail-Address) and use that one.

"From" name

This field works along the lines of the previous. If you want to use the name of the user, you need to use a Text filed (single line).

"Reply To" address

With this field you can specify an address for the "reply-to"-field wich differs from the "from"-address. This field behaves exactly as the one for the "From" address. If you insert an email address here, that one is used for the "reply-to" field of the email. If you leave this field empty, the "from"-address is used instead.

Subject

This is the Subject header line of the email. There is a field type E-Mail Subject (Suffix). If you use this type of field in your form, its content will be added to the content of the subject defined in the backend.

Text

This is the real content of the email. Place holders will be replaced by the content. {DATA} stands for the entire user input.

Attention Pitfall: It makes no sense to use more than one of each field of the types E-Mail recipient and E-Mail Subject (Suffix) at a page. If you do it anyways, the results might be unsuspected.