how to get reply form mail form? 1.2.6

[cyrano]

hi to all,

i searched for the setup of the form generator (older one) how to achieve that a message which is send by form can be replied in email program...?

Is there a solution? i searched forum but only get so really solved threads for this topic.

thx for giving an idea or url.

[phalancs]

Any email message dcan be replied,

the FROM adress can be set in the conf.inc.php
also the FROM Name.
Is this what you meant?

[cyppher.nl]

...
achieve that a message which is send by form can be replied in email program...?

Hi

I need this functionality too!

Now when a user fills in a email contactform (cont.part) I get an e-mail from sender 'www-data'. This is weird, because I want to auto-reply the user's message!

How are messages from users via the email contactform to be configured to show user's name and email as Sender?

I can't figure out if this has something to do with the email settings in the phpwcms config file, or with my hosting provider settings!

Please let us know, it's urgent actually .. my humble thanks in advance _o_ ..

[DeXXus]

-=SNIP=-
because I want to auto-reply the user's message!

How are messages from users via the email contactform to be configured to show user's name and email as Sender?

Unless the email message (to respond to) came from the user's mail server and mail address... I don't ~think~ you can just "show" their name and address in the from: block or auto-reply. Because this is just sending an email (to you) through your own site, with the user's name and address, you cannot "spoof" this information. (That's what "spammers" DO) .

You could set up your own contact form "method" that activates their email client (ex. mailto: and subject:, etc.) to originate an email from ~their~ email server (and email address) to you.

[chris102]

What if sb puts its name and email into my fields?
e.g.
name: John Small
email: john.small@sb.com

Let's assume that my server is "myserver"

I get email from

"John Small" <johnSmall@myserver.com>

How to force mailer to do:

"John Small" <john.small@sb.com>

Thanx

[Ben]

I just realized that the e-mail contact form sends exactly as chris102 says in version 1.2.5, but not in 1.2.6. I just upgraded a client from 1.2.3 to 1.2.6 for this very reason. It worked when I tested 1.2.5, so I made the assumption that the latest wouldn't have backtracked to not working properly.

Does anyone have any ideas as to where we can look to make 1.2.6 function properly as 1.2.5 does? My guess is that the phpmailer class is unchanged in these versions, so it must be the content part.

UPDATE: it appears that they both use phpmailer 1.73

[Ben]

You can mark this thread as solved (and I'm very excited to share my findings with others)!

All you have to do is set the value of the "CC to:" field to "e-mail" (or whatever you happened to name your e-mail field). This value needs to be picked from the dropdown, even if the CC to checkbox is NOT CHECKED, which is why we all probably overlooked it. The version 1.2.5 I mentioned in my previous post had CC to checked, which explains why it worked for me.

I hope this helps some of you ...

[Kosse]

Hey Ben,
muchas gracias amigo! Nice tip!
Take care,
Cheers

[thoblerone@work]

http://www.phpwcms.de/forum/viewtopic.php?p=62448#62448