Email / web question

[jyl]

Hey guys, need help on a web thing

Using WIX to build my website. Trying to enable readers to click a button and generate an email to six or seven email addresses.

WIX only supports a "email to" link that includes a single email.

Any workaround? Like a service that takes A's email to B and forwards it to C D E F with A's email address?

[stomachmonkey]

The single email should link to an alias / distribution list / forwarder.

Set up a dummy address with no mailbox, sendmespam@jyl.com.

Then auto forward all mail received by sendmespam@jyl.com to the other addresses.

You set the forwarders in the account settings for sendmespam@jyl.com

If you have access to the source code in WIX you can hand code it.

<a href='mailto:ihatespam@jyl.com,whyallthespam@jyl.com'>Email Us</a>

Add additional addresses separated by commas, no spaces.

[id10t]

Do your visitors get to pick which address gets teh email or its it just a form that goes to everyone on a list?

What you need is server side processing, via PHP, Perl, etc. Lucky for you I wrote a "process pretty much any form all the config is really done in the form" processing script forever ago, still works well. And, I put it Out There under the GPL - so you can use and enjoy and share. php-form2mail gruv.org

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by id10t

Do your visitors get to pick which address gets teh email or its it just a form that goes to everyone on a list?

What you need is server side processing, via PHP, Perl, etc. Lucky for you I wrote a "process pretty much any form all the config is really done in the form" processing script forever ago, still works well. And, I put it Out There under the GPL - so you can use and enjoy and share. php-form2mail gruv.org

useful but way overkill if all he needs is multiple people cc'd on a submit

and he's doing this on WIX, never used wix myself but since its one of those point n click templated services its highly unlikely he has the access privileges needed anyway

[HardDrive]

StomachMonkey is spot on. If you need something more sophisticated you could use a service like mailchimp.

https://mailchimp.com/

[Holger]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

Set up a dummy address with no mailbox, sendmespam@jyl.com.

Then auto forward all mail received by sendmespam@jyl.com to the other addresses.

^this, does not get easier!

[RKDinOKC]

Seems like the email send to field Wix provides you should be able to enter the multiple email addresses separated by commas.

Or that you can have multiple users/site editors for the site that the email can be sent to.

The only problem with setting up and email address that has a server side rule that forwards all mails to a list of email addresses is that it would also forward all spam. I would assume Wix has some mechanism like Captia that keeps robots from sending spam from their email link/form.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Seems like the email send to field Wix provides you should be able to enter the multiple email addresses separated by commas.

Or that you can have multiple users/site editors for the site that the email can be sent to.

The only problem with setting up and email address that has a server side rule that forwards all mails to a list of email addresses is that it would also forward all spam. I would assume Wix has some mechanism like Captia that keeps robots from sending spam from their email link/form.

This is one of the reasons I prefer contact forms.

Mailto is a honeypot. You end up getting more spam to the address than useful contacts.

It also requires the visitors mail app to be invoked which to me is not the best user experience. Even though it auto invokes it still feels like extra steps and each extra step results in abandonment.

A simple contact form with captcha is better for both the visitor and site owner.

[Charles Freeborn]

Mail chimp.