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| 1 # formmail | |
| 2 | |
| 3 The web handler that extracts form data from a POST request, uses it to | |
| 4 populate an email template and then sends the produced email to a configured | |
| 5 list of addresses. | |
| 6 | |
| 7 ## Dependencies | |
| 8 | |
| 9 * [Python 2.7](https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/) | |
| 10 * [Jinja2](http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/2.10/intro/) | |
| 11 * Other packages are required for testing, please see the list of 'deps' in | |
| 12 [`tox.ini`](../../tox.ini) | |
| 13 | |
| 14 ## Running the web handler | |
| 15 | |
| 16 Normally, the formmail web handler is run by the multiplexer, and configured | |
| 17 via the sitescripts config file. Please refer to the main [README](../../README. md) | |
| 18 for more information about the multiplexer and configuring `sitescripts.ini`. | |
| 19 | |
| 20 In order to activate this handler, add the following line to the multiplexer | |
| 21 config file: | |
| 22 | |
| 23 [multiplexer] | |
| 24 sitescripts.formmail.web.formmail = | |
| 25 | |
| 26 ## Configuring the web handler | |
| 27 | |
| 28 `formmail.py` can handle multiple URLs and forms. Each URL will correspond to a | |
| 29 group of config variables that all start with the same prefix, for example: | |
| 30 handler1. These variables are configured in the [formmail] section of the | |
| 31 config file. | |
| 32 | |
| 33 The URL of the form, where the POST request comes from: | |
| 34 | |
| 35 [formmail] | |
| 36 handler1.url = formmail/test/apply/submit | |
| 37 | |
| 38 The CSV file into which all submissions will be saved (optional): | |
| 39 | |
| 40 handler1.csv_log = /var/log/something.csv_log | |
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Vasily Kuznetsov
2019/01/23 12:23:13
Nit: let's rename the file to `handler1-log.csv`,
rhowell
2019/01/23 21:40:26
Done.
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| 42 The Jinja2 template for the email. This is where the recipient email addresses | |
| 43 are entered. [(See an example email template.)](formmail/test/template/test.mail ): | |
| 44 | |
| 45 handler1.template = formmail/test/template/test.mail | |
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Vasily Kuznetsov
2019/01/23 12:23:13
Nit: here we can also rename the template file to
rhowell
2019/01/23 21:40:26
Done.
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| 47 The `handler1.fields.xxx` subgroup includes the descriptions of the form fields, | |
| 48 and these must match the fields on the form. These are the fields expected in th e | |
| 49 POST request and then made available to the template. Each variable in the group | |
| 50 defines a field and its value can be: | |
| 51 * "mandatory" (which makes the field mandatory) | |
| 52 * and/or "email" (which makes the field an email) | |
| 53 * or it can be empty (just a normal optional field). | |
| 54 | |
| 55 For mandatory fields we can also define "group-name.fields.field-name.mandatory" | |
| 56 to override the error message that will be returned by the handler if the field | |
| 57 was empty. Likewise for email fields we can define | |
| 58 "group-name.fields.field-name.email" to set the error message that's returned if | |
| 59 the content of the field doesn't look like an email. See an example: | |
| 60 | |
| 61 handler1.fields.email = mandatory, email | |
| 62 handler1.fields.email.mandatory = You failed the email test | |
| 63 handler1.fields.email.email = You failed the email validation | |
| 64 handler1.fields.non_mandatory_email = email | |
| 65 handler1.fields.non_mandatory_message = | |
| 66 handler1.fields.mandatory = mandatory | |
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