University Computing Services
Using
/cgi-bin/mail on www.fsu.edu - web forms
Departmental World
Wide Web page developers on www.fsu.edu may access a CGI program that
decodes form input and eMails it to a prespecified alias. Departments
can request creation of an eMail alias that points to one or more eMail
addresses to receive the data. The program is called "mail", and was
written by Carlos A. Pero at the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications.
Sorry, this service
is not available for student organizations at this time.
First
Step:
To request access
to the program, send eMail to problems(at)ucs.fsu.edu
requesting to be added to the "mail" database with the following
information:
- The departmental
webaccount name
- Who the eMail
generated by the form should go to (can be more than one person,
if desired)
- The preferred
name of the alias
UCS will generate
an alias for you, placing it in a database that is accessed by the
"mail" program. You will receive an eMail from us containing
the assigned alias and confirming that the service is ready to use.
If you have multiple forms you may request multiple aliases, as needed.
Using
"mail" in your form:
The action URL
in the departmental form should be
<FORM METHOD="POST"
ACTION="http://www.fsu.edu/cgi-bin/mail?alias">
where "alias"
is the alias you received from UCS.
Customizing
your auto-acknowledgement (optional):
If you wish, you
may customize the acknowledgement a user receives in response to filling
our your departmental form. Include the following in your document:
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="next-url" VALUE="/~user/received.html">
where "~user"
is your departmental webaccount name and "received.html"
is the name you assign to the acknowledgement file. If this is present
in the FORM input, the browser will be redirected to the file you
specify as a confirmation message instead of the default.
Customizing
eMail generated by the form (optional):
In addition, you
can also define any of the following input names in your form to further
customize output eMailed back to the alias.
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="subject" VALUE="My survey results">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="from-name" VALUE="Average Web user">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="from-email"
VALUE="jdoe@domain.com">
These values will
then be used in the header of the eMail message. Otherwise, default
values will be substituted.
Be sure to make
appropriate substitutions for VALUE.
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