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We have a bunch of sites that are almost entirely static, but have a php "contact us" email form. Right now they are some bloated PHP CMS thing, and I would re

We have a bunch of sites that are almost entirely static, but have a php "contact us" email form. Right now they are some bloated PHP CMS thing, and I would really like to switch them over to being static. Does anyone know of a cheap service that provides a form to send email we could have our contact form POST to?

jeremyjh 14y ago
Uhm, do you know you can do a post to a mailto: action with your form contents? The browser will open your email client the same as a mailto link. http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_form_mail http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_for...
- papsosouid 14y ago
  Yes, but since half the people who contact us have no smtp server, that doesn't work out too well.
  - criley 14y ago
    Not sure about operating system's other than Windows, but gmail (opens a compose window in a new window) is my "default" handler for mailto: links.
- anglebracket 14y ago
  How does this handle the majority of users who use webmail clients?
- eli 14y ago
  I'd be really curious to A/B test mailto versus contact form, but my gut is that fewer people would use a mailto.
mountaineer 14y ago
http://www.wufoo.com/examples/#contactform http://www.wufoo.com/examples/#contactform or a google docs form maybe.
xaritas 14y ago
I have helped a friend who does small, static marketing sites. In addition to needing a server for only thing (forwarding contact forms), I've noticed that mail from the low-end shared hosting her clients generally choose is extremely unreliable. So I've wondered if there was a need a service exactly like this. However it seemed so basic I thought... nah. Is this a real pain point for enough people?
- elyase 14y ago
  It is for me. I do mostly static sites for small business, and use embedded forms from jotform.com but would really prefer to be able simply to post the info to an external server which handles sending the email.
  - stevekemp 14y ago
    Implementing such a service would be almost trivial; I'm genuinely surprised this is something that people would need. Register online-mail-form.com, and ask for £5 a year?
weitzj 14y ago
You could use Google Forms. Extract the POST URL,build your own static form and put the POST URL there. Then you query your data with Google Docs
jrochkind1 14y ago
So, this is not a service that sends email... but I sometimes use a Google Doc survey in that circumstance. There might be a way to get google doc to email you with the response every time someone submits one?
Benferhat 14y ago
> Does anyone know of a cheap service AppEngine would do this for free.

jeremyjh 14y ago

Uhm, do you know you can do a post to a mailto: action with your form contents? The browser will open your email client the same as a mailto link. http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_form_mail http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_for...

papsosouid 14y ago
Yes, but since half the people who contact us have no smtp server, that doesn't work out too well.
- criley 14y ago
  Not sure about operating system's other than Windows, but gmail (opens a compose window in a new window) is my "default" handler for mailto: links.
anglebracket 14y ago
How does this handle the majority of users who use webmail clients?
eli 14y ago
I'd be really curious to A/B test mailto versus contact form, but my gut is that fewer people would use a mailto.

mountaineer 14y ago

http://www.wufoo.com/examples/#contactform http://www.wufoo.com/examples/#contactform or a google docs form maybe.

xaritas 14y ago

I have helped a friend who does small, static marketing sites. In addition to needing a server for only thing (forwarding contact forms), I've noticed that mail from the low-end shared hosting her clients generally choose is extremely unreliable. So I've wondered if there was a need a service exactly like this. However it seemed so basic I thought... nah. Is this a real pain point for enough people?

elyase 14y ago
It is for me. I do mostly static sites for small business, and use embedded forms from jotform.com but would really prefer to be able simply to post the info to an external server which handles sending the email.
- stevekemp 14y ago
  Implementing such a service would be almost trivial; I'm genuinely surprised this is something that people would need. Register online-mail-form.com, and ask for £5 a year?

weitzj 14y ago

You could use Google Forms. Extract the POST URL,build your own static form and put the POST URL there. Then you query your data with Google Docs

jrochkind1 14y ago

So, this is not a service that sends email... but I sometimes use a Google Doc survey in that circumstance. There might be a way to get google doc to email you with the response every time someone submits one?

Benferhat 14y ago

> Does anyone know of a cheap service AppEngine would do this for free.