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From one of my sites we keep getting nuisance entries from a Chinese server. Can I put a bar on that specific IP address?

Does anyone know how you can make the form handle file attachments? I know you can do file uploads. But I want it so a user can send a word doc or pdf then it sends the email with the doc file attached. Any help appreciated.

I would like to send the form template to a second email address, is there an easy way to do this? Thanks in advance Drachsi

Hi all! I have one formscript installed on my www.own-server.com with the setting I like to use - works fine! My sister have another domain www.my-sis.com that are using a small form - So I linked it to mine And it works fine... But I do get a warning error about the mail didn't get sent -...

Dreamhost has changed their policy as follows: ((We made some mail policy changes last year, and one of them is to restrict the from address of emails that are sent through DreamHost's servers. Emails sent through DreamHost's servers should only be sent with a from address that you control...

Some people seem to have difficulty reading CAPTCHA. Here is an alternative that uses a simple math question along with formmail's built-in REVERSE_CAPTCHA feature. You can read up on formmail’s reverse captcha at the following location. ...

FormMail supports "language packs" for use on sites written in languages other than English. The language packs work because FormMail is written to look for a file named "language.inc" and to use that file for replacing the English messages in FormMail with translated messages. Thus, one installs...

Hello, The form works like a charm! After I get the thank you page, how do I set it up so it goes back to a page of my website? Thank you for your help! It is appreciated!

When I first use the form the columns headers are added to the csv file, which creates a problems when I batch load the data in a MySQL data base. Is there a way to avoid sending the column headers?

I have a long form where the first fields are customer identification (Validated with Javascript) then 9 rows of fields like this: title1, medium1, heigh1, width1, price1 title2, medium2, heigh2, width2, price2 title3, medium3, heigh3, width3, price3 .... .... The form works fine and I...

I am currently using a form processor that allows me to include in the redirected page any field in the form. This is particulaly usefull because I can use personalize the response by using the submitter name (One of the required field). Is there any way I can do this with Formmail? If not...

I thought I read somewhere, but now I can't find it, that you can set FormMail up so that in the email sent to your recipients any fields with blank, null, or empty values are not included. But I can't seem to locate that now. Is it possible to have empty fields suppressed in the reply...

My form worked for several years until I recently updated my website. Now I can't get the form to work. It uses encoding for encryption. I can get the server to send a test message but when I complete my form on my website I get an email as follows: From: FormMail@ The following error...

// General Variables $check_referrer="yes"; $referring_domains="http://www.cshpharmacy.net/formmailer.php/ This is how i have coded I have been getting an error message when the form has been submitted The requested URL /cshpharmacy/formmailer.php was not found on...

I've been using your forms for a while. And I'm very happy with the CSV output created from the php forms. The way it's working now is that each form creates another formdata.csv file in a directory I have specified, but each time someone fills out a new form, it overwrites to a new file. Is there...

my site is utf-8 encoded and formmal is using an HTML templates which is also utf-8 encoded. everything was great except the From Header was not utf-8 encoded and names written in utf-8 encoded arabic characters would come up as garbled text in Outlook. to fix this, and have the name in From...

I hope someone can help. I'm researched out and getting frusterated. I have a form setup with various info that is emailed to me, via post. What I need to do is, upon submission, redirect the user to one of two pages, based on a select box in the form. I don't want them to automatically jump...

I have been trying to figure out how to add in blank lines (carriage return/line feed) in the email sent with Formmail. Specifically, I wanted to add a blank line after a form field generated by a derive_fields field, but I'd be happy enough with a space between all the lines. I have tried...

… Hi All – First, some background. I am thrilled with FormMail and have been using it on several forms on several websites, and have successfully integrated reCAPTCHA on those forms. Recently, with no changes on my end, reCAPTCHA stopped working properly. Correctly entered challenge...

Russell I have to put you on the naughty step.:p The page : http://www.tectite.com/fmdoc/version_history.php Has not been kept up to date. I can see there is now version 8.31 and I can see the change in coding. But I assume it will not affect the implementation of the php files. Ian