Ick. Is this on anyone's radar to tackle? Some in the user community *must* have solved it for themselves, and just not shared, right? I'm guessing that this feature is missing because it's more of a CMS need than something that would be used by a regular wiki?
<br><br>From a lay perspective, this doesn't look as if it should be that hard to do -- it seems as if all the pieces have been developed, and that it's just that no one's put them together in one place. I need to
<br>* use the Input recipe's syntax to create a form on a page (no problem),<br>* add that "captcha-like" thinger from CommentBoxPlus (or somewhere) to verify the user is human (couldn't/shouldn't this be added to the Input recipe, anyhow?),
<br>* have some of the fields in the form on the page be standard email fields, and<br>* have the "Submit" button send an email to an address that I hard-code into the form, or the recipe configuration, or (best) that the form's author pre-enters in an Input field that is "hidden".
<br><br>Of the existing MailForm recipes, Mailform2 (<a href="http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Mailform2">http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Mailform2</a>) seems to come closest to this, but I can't for the life of me figure out how it works.
<br>* There's a field "<code class="escaped">$Mailform2Sender"</code>, but the description for it says it's "The Sender: header to attach to the message. Note that this value is ignored except for installations on Windows." - So I infer that, for a wiki installed on a linux server, this is useless, and won't show up as the "From" field in the email?
<br>* And then there's the field "<code class="escaped">$Mailform2Subject</code>"; I can't see how the contents of it get inserted into the "Subject" field of the email. Since I can't figure that out, I can't see how to add other Input fields that I might want to use on the page.
<br>* And I don't have a chance of figuring out how to add a Captcha-like thing.<br><br>So after 10 hours of experimenting with the PmWiki MailForm recipes, I'm now looking at <a href="http://www.Wufoo.com">www.Wufoo.com
</a> - they have a pretty nifty utility that lets you build a form (even lets you get at the css of it if you want), plug the resulting html into a page, and store the messages it sends on their servers, where you can read them, add comments to them, and look at statistics and reports on them. They offer a wufoo-branded, 10-field, 3-form account for free, and un-branded, larger accounts for fees that start at $9/month. Does anyone know of any alternatives?
<br><br>Thanks for any thoughts about this.<br>