Whenever someone fills out a form on a TL site, it is sent from 'typolight@domain.com'. It would be a great addition if we could select one of the form fields (e-mail address Text field, for instance) as the sender of the e-mail. This way, the recipient of the e-mail can simply reply without having to change the To: field from typolight@domain.com to the senders e-mail address.

In System > Settings, I do have unchecked "Use SMTP to send mails" because my hosting provider does not allow me to use SMTP for web forms.

...or one step ahead:
the sender can choose the recipient email... For example: One contact form, containing a dropdownlist for choosing the recipient. This could be "General, Sale, Support" and so on. The user (=sender) can now choose to whom he wants to send the contact form. In the background TL replaces "General" by info@domain.tdl or "Sale" by sale@domain.tdl, an so on...

Tinoo - I agree that your request would be something nice to have, as well, so the form info can be directed to the appropriate person/address.

Hi guys,

if your form contains a field called email, TYPOlight will use the value of this field as sender e-mail address. If the field does not contain a valid e-mail address, the fallback (typolight@domain.com) is used.

Regards
Leo

Weird, I use this in a form and it sends e-mails from typolight@domain.com:
- Field type = Text field
- Field name = email
- Field label = e-mail address
- Value = [null]
- Mandatory field = [checked]
- Input validation = E-mail address
- Maximum length = 0
- Access key = e
- Add submit button = [unchecked]

As mentioned above, my installation does not use an SMTP connection. Am I doing something wrong to cause it to send from typolight@domain.com even though I have a field named 'email'?

Hi Ben,

I just came across a small bug in the form generator library which caused TYPOlight to always use the fallback sender e-mail address. Now that I have fixed it, the form generator works as intended.

Regards
Leo

Wow - thanks for the quick fix! I guess you can scratch my feature request from the list since it was already implemented. Any ideas on when version 2.2 will be released? (no pressure ... just curious)

Hi Ben,

I am planning to release it by the end of this week.

Regards
Leo

Hi Ben

Ben:

Tinoo - I agree that your request would be something nice to have, as well, so the form info can be directed to the appropriate person/address.

Indeed! We would need just another multiline textfield in the backend, where we can list the mailadresses like this:

General|info@domain.tdl
Sale|sale@domain.tdl
Support|support@domain.tdl
Webmaster|webmaster@domain.tdl

and so on... The dropdownlist in the frontend form shows only "General", "Sale",... And the script then replaces the choosen recipient by his mailadress.

Could be a kind of spamblocker as well...

Quote:

Whenever someone fills out a form on a TL site, it is sent from 'typolight@domain.com'. It would be a great addition if we could select one of the form fields (e-mail address Text field, for instance) as the sender of the e-mail.

The initial request from this post has been implemented in version 2.2 of TYPOlight.

Hi there,

I would like to ask about that feature again.
I added field with name "email" but instead of having that email address in "FROM" I have it in "REPLY-TO".

Thx for help,
Pawel

I have been working on this today - it seems that I too have the same issue - it is in the reply-to field rather than the from field. In the from field it uses the address from another site root in my Typolight Setup - not even the one from the root of the site that the form is in.

Anyone got any ideas about whether or not this is a bug?