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submit form in evolution

Asked by Zora

*does evolution have the ability to respond to a "form email"?*

i received an email that actually is a form (html form). it has some fields to be filled, and a 'submit' button at the bottom of the form.
upon completing the form, i clicked the 'submit' button.
but alas, nothing happened.

in another operating system, if i receive this kind of email, whenever i click the submit button after completing the form, it will send a new mail for me with the form data attached to it.

what's the problem?

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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) said : 		#1

Hello Zora,

Without knowing what is being done by the HTML code in the form, it is difficult to answer. Could you post it here (if not private)?

If it is private... and you *do* understand HTML code, post just the necessary pieces for it.

Optionally, you can email me this direct at hggdh2 at gmail dot com. SSH email is accepted, and my SSH public key is available on hkp://pgp.mit.edu:11371.

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Zora (zora) said : 		#2

thanks for your response, hggdh.

the html code looks something like this:

<html>
<body>
<form name="form1" method="post" <email address hidden>">
  Name: <input name="name" type="text" id="name">
  <br />
  <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

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Zora (zora) said : 		#3

sorry, i just realized that the html code in my previous post is not displayed correctly.
the email address part was replaced by "<email address hidden>" text.

<html>
<body>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="robot at domain dot com">
  Name: <input name="name" type="text" id="name">
  <br />
  <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

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Zora (zora) said : 		#4

sorry again.
the "action" part in the html should be like this:

<html>
<body>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="mailto:robot at domain dot com">
  Name: <input name="name" type="text" id="name">
  <br />
  <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) said : 		#5

Sorry for the delay, Zora, got busy elsewhere.

Evo uses a HTML renderer, but I am thinking it will not drive a post. I asked about it, and the response I got states Evo will display forms, but they will not work.

This is different on Windows, for example, where the form is activelly worked on (since Outlook is thickly embedded with IE).

Nevertheless, this was considered an interesting feature request, so I will go ahead and add it in launchpad (and hook it here and upstream).

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Best C de-Avillez (hggdh2) said : 		#6

This is known upstream at Gnome, and bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220200 had been already submitted there. I linked the LP bug to the upstream.

Summary: (1) no, Evo does not support responding to HTML forms currently; (2) it is not expected that Javascript will be supported any time soon (unless someone submits a patch for it).

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Zora (zora) said : 		#7

Thanks hggdh, that solved my question.