When a visitor completes the form, I get the email as expected.
The issue is that if I reply it goes to the "Sender Email" which is set in the handler, rather than to the email address entered into the form.
Would be great if the handler could use the Email field from the form for the sender, so when I hit reply it will use their email address.
That makes sense. I think you'll run into issues if you try to use a recipient email address as the sender (don't think SMTP will allow you to do that).
However, you might just be able to set the reply to address to the same as the recipient email address. One way of going about that would be to use the field picker to select the field that will be used to populate the reply-to address.
There could be many ways of going about that. If you'd like to implement this with a pull request, please first outline the idea in an issue, including the technical approach you plan on taking (that way, I can vet the solution you have in mind before you invest any time in implementing it): https://github.com/rhythmagency/formulate/issues
I'm sure you've already thought of this, but a simple alternative would be to forward the email and copy the email address from the message body.
From / Reply to address
Hi,
It would be great if it was possible to set the from or reply to address to one of the fields on the form.
Is this possible and I'm not configuring things correctly, the sender email is hard set in the email handler.
Cheers, Mike
Hi Mike,
This is not currently possible. However, I'm curious about your use case. Can you tell me a bit about it?
We might be able to add a feature to support something like what you're after.
HI Nicholas,
It's a standard simple contact us form:
And this is the email handler setup:
When a visitor completes the form, I get the email as expected. The issue is that if I reply it goes to the "Sender Email" which is set in the handler, rather than to the email address entered into the form.
Would be great if the handler could use the Email field from the form for the sender, so when I hit reply it will use their email address.
Hope than makes sense!
That makes sense. I think you'll run into issues if you try to use a recipient email address as the sender (don't think SMTP will allow you to do that).
However, you might just be able to set the reply to address to the same as the recipient email address. One way of going about that would be to use the field picker to select the field that will be used to populate the reply-to address.
There could be many ways of going about that. If you'd like to implement this with a pull request, please first outline the idea in an issue, including the technical approach you plan on taking (that way, I can vet the solution you have in mind before you invest any time in implementing it): https://github.com/rhythmagency/formulate/issues
I'm sure you've already thought of this, but a simple alternative would be to forward the email and copy the email address from the message body.
Hi,
I think you are right about having to use the reply to address, I remember having to do that in the past, in non-Umbraco projects.
I will see if I can put the idea up into github, that side of things is all new to me, I don't even have a github account yet!
Copy & pasting the email address is fine for me, but is very messy for users and they very quickly forget to do it!
Mike
Let me know if you have any questions about GitHub. It can definitely seem confusing at first, so happy to clarify things if you run into issues.
You might put instructions in the email message to remind them (though I could see them ignoring that out of habit).
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