Trouble with ContactForm

I’ve seen worse.

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,554.msg3082.html#msg3082

Quote from: sottwell at Feb 25, 2006, 02:48 AM

I’ve seen worse.

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,554.msg3082.html#msg3082

oh, and the funny thing is, i know what smtp is, did a project on it a few years ago. Yet had it in my head lately that its a windows issue...

Quote from: stempy at Feb 25, 2006, 02:41 AM

Quote from: sottwell at Feb 25, 2006, 02:34 AM

SMTP was developed long before Windows even existed (1980-1982). Linux certainly uses it.

Sendmail (as well as all other mail transfer agents such as Postfix) is based on it, and is still the most popular mail agent in the UNIX world.

http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_SMTPOverviewHistoryandStandards.htm

Ooops, very good point, I think my put my foot in it there...

Think I need some sleep.

Hi,

Did you solve the problem?

I have the same problem as you do or did...

Any input on this..

Thanks,
WhiteHat

I couldn’t get the contact form to work either. I ditched it in favour of eform, which is much more flexible and worked straight away for me. The advantage of using eform is that you can easily customize the contact form.

Andy

I was beating my head against the wall over problems with some email forms on my site, and I found out that my hosting company was not allowing the php mail() function to send mail to any address outside of the server itself (I could have mail sent to [email protected], but not anyone else). I will be changing hosting companies later this summer.

Quote from: sottwell at May 31, 2006, 01:53 AM

I was beating my head against the wall over problems with some email forms on my site, and I found out that my hosting company was not allowing the php mail() function to send mail to any address outside of the server itself (I could have mail sent to [email protected], but not anyone else). I will be changing hosting companies later this summer.

I don’t know what really happened but today my contact form started working LOL... Everything is by default.. according to modx requirements.

I was wondering thought about one thing...

There is a dropdown field in the contact form but when emailed this field does not send any data??? .... everything seems in order in the contact form thought.

Any idea.

If i need to be more specific holla at me.

Cheers WhiteHat

I think the point of that dropdown is to determine who/which department gets the email - I don’t think we’re meant to have them all go to the same email account.

It is true that users will expect the recipient to know which one was selected, so it is worth changing the form code to pass this through. Or possibly using names in the email to address, like "Sales Department<[email protected]>", "Faults Department<[email protected]>" would work.

It may be easier to just switch to the eForm snippet.