PloneFormMailer
Category: Communication
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Current release: PloneFormMailer 1.0-final
Released Feb 28, 2008 — tested with Plone 2.5, Plone 2.1, Archetypes 1.4, Zope 2.9
Final of a almost dead old guy. Probably the last release.
Experimental releases
Upcoming and alpha/beta/candidate releases
- Alpha releases should only be used for testing and development.
- Beta releases and Release Candidates are normally released for production testing, but should not be used on mission-critical sites.
- Always install on a separate test server first, and make sure you have proper backups before installing.
Release roadmap for PloneFormMailer…
Project Description
- Project resources
Create forms and configure the mail-template through the Plone.
PloneFormMailer is a Plone product for through the web (ttw) creation of forms and sending them formated to one or more fixed recipients. After successful sent a customizeable response-page will be displayed.
It combines the power of Formulator and CMFFormController glued together in an Archetypes product.
PloneFormMailer is designed for easy adaption.
Features:
- Send web-forms via e-mail, like contact forms, order forms, etc.
- Form creation via formulator; fully customizeable
- Customizeable mail header and body with PageTemplates
- TALES support for recipients name, e-mail, cc, bcc
- Add header and footer (txt, stx, html, ...) to form
- Own controller page template (optional)
- Customizeable response page (displayed after succeccful send)
- Response redirect with TALES support (optional)
- Encrypt message using gpg (optional)
- i18n support with LinguaPlone (optional)
Formulator ...
... is no longer part of Plone. It was dropped by plone 2.1. You can download Formulator from Infrae at www.infrae.com/download/Formulator but it is included in the PloneFormMailer bundles for your convenience.
Authors
- Jens Klein jens@bluedynamics.com, original author.
- Reinout van Rees, Zest software, current maintainer.
Copyright by BlueDynamics Alliance, Klein & Partner KEG, Austria
Licence
This product is under GNU General Public Licence Version 2 or later
Credits
Thanks to Daniel Nouri, who did basic case-studies with Uniformed and added TALES support. Thanks to the unknown author of the howto at plone.org Integrating CMFFormController with Formulator and also to the authors of CMFFormController and Formulator. And also thanks to all contributors of all minor changes.
Lately Jean-Charles Rogez has done a lot of work, most notably allowing attachments. Thanks!
Contribution:
If you like to help out in writing code and/or documentation, just start and cvs commit. Ok, bigger changes would be nice to discuss ;-)
Support
There isn't enough traffic for a own mailing-list. So feel free to post to the plone-users list or to ask around on #plone in IRC. The authors are available pretty often and others can chime in too.
Professional support is offered by the authors and other Plone-supporting companies around the globe.