eForm is working but will not send me an email.

eForm redirects to my thank you page. If I submit and invalid form it handles that perfectly. But, it won’t send me an email with the submitted information. I’m using &to. What am I missing.

Post your eForm snippet call so we can better see what you are trying to do.

You might want to check whether you can send mail from your server using the PHP mail() function.

I finally received the emails but it took forever (3-4 hours). Is this normal?


Snippet Call:
[!eform? &formid=`connectform` &to=`[email protected],[email protected]` &tpl=`connecttpl` &report=`connectreport` &thankyou=`connectthanks` &subject=`CCFI Connect Form Submission`!]


Template:
<form name="connectform" form id="connectform" method="post" action="[~[*id*]~]">
<input type="hidden" name="connectform" value="connectform" />
<p>[+validationmessage+]</p>

<h1>Send Us An Email</h1>

Name*

<input name="name" type="text" id="name" size="50" maxlength="50" eform="Name:string:1:Your name is required.">


Address

<input name="address" type="text" id="address" size="50" maxlength="50">


<div id="citylabel">City</div>

<input name="city" type="text" id="city" size="38" maxlength="38">

<div id="statelabel">State</div><div id="ziplabel">Zip</div>

<input name="state" type="text" id="state" value="Florida" size="15" maxlength="15"><input name="zip" type="text" id="zip" size="30" maxlength="30">


Phone

<input name="phone" type="text" id="phone" size=;50" maxlength="50">


<p>&nbsp;</p>

Email*

<input name="email" type="text" id="email" size="50" maxlength="50" eform="Email:email:1:Your email address is required.">


Message*

<textarea name="message" id="message" cols="48" rows="20" eform="Message:html:1:A message is required."></textarea>

<p><div id="required">*Required Fields</div>
<div id="submit"><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit Email"></div></p>

</form>


Report:
<p>This is a response sent by [+name+] using the contact form on the website. The details of the message follow below:</p>
<table>
<tr valign="top"><td>Name:</td><td>[+name+]</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td>Email:</td><td>[+email+]</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><td>Message:</td><td>[+message+]</td></tr>
</table>
<p>You can use this link to reply: <a href="mailto:[+email+]?subject=RE:[+subject+]">[+email+]</a></p>


Thank You:
<div id="connectthanks">

<h1>Thank You</h1>

<p>We appreciate you taking the time to contact us. A member of our staff will be following up on your email. If you need more immediate assistance please call the church office at 904-421-2694. Have a blessed day.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h1>Your Message</h1>

Name: [+name+]

Email: [+email+]

Comments: [+message+]


</div>

eFrom is done with its part of sending the email in the blink of an eye. All it does is to forward it to a mail server, and the mail server takes over from there. So if it’s taking a very long time to receive emails sent by eForm then the problem will likely be either the sendmail server or the server receiving the email. Sometimes these things just work themselves out after a while (as a backlog of mail is processed). Try sending to a different email address and see if it gets there quickly. If so, then the problem is your receiving email server. If not, then you might have a spammer on your server clogging up the email pipes.