Installing FormMail:

FormMail.pl is a generic www form to email gateway. It will parse the results of any form you create with HTML and send them to the specified user. FormMail.pl is a Perl script and it has many formatting and operational options, most of which can be specified through the form, meaning you don't need any programming knowledge or multiple scripts for multiple forms.

To Setup FormMail.pl follow these steps:

Create your form using HTML.

Download the latest"FormMail.pl" You can download FormMail.pl from here.

Unzip the files to any directory on your computer.

A Readme file is contained in the download, please carefully follow instructions provided.

Once FormMail is setup:

You will need to edit your form so that it can execute the script. You do this by editing the "form action" statement in the form to point to the path where FormMail.pl resides. For example, if you are going to place FormMail.pl in your cgi-bin directory, you need to edit the "form action" statement to read:

"form action="/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl"
Also make sure that the method is "post."

Upload FormMail.pl to your server in ASCII mode.

Changing the permissions for FormMail.

FormMail requires that you make it executable. Many FTP applications allow you to change a file to executable by right-clicking the file on the remote system and clicking CHMOD. FormMail requires a CHMOD setting of 755.