Gypsy Mail: A free Form Mail script written in Python.

Distributed under the GNU General Public License.
Version 0.7.1 beta. -- released Sept. 15, 2002

• Description
• System Requirements
• Features
• To-Do List
• readme.txt (contains version history)
• Documentation - HTML format. Browsable online.
• Subscribe to an announcement only mailing list (for updates)
• Send Feedback to the author
• Examples - working online examples of the script
• Download

Description:

A Python clone of the well-known cgiemail script, with added features and flexibility. This script allows you to set up an HTML form on your website, to collect information from your site's visitors, and send a very nicely formatted e-mail to yourself, or possibly other e-mail addresses.

Features:

• Format the output of the email to your own specifications
• Require certain, mandatory fields to be completed by your website's visitors. Failure to complete such fields generates an error message.
• Confirm-fields. Require the user to fill in a field twice, such as passwords or e-mail addresses, to protect against "typos".
• Restricted-fields. To protect against certain monkey business, double-check that user input is among a list of limited options.
• Specify "exit" URLs, for both the "Success" page and the "Error" page.
• Several "Success Page" options, including redirection to a particular URL, success-page-templates with options for including parts of the sent email and/or form data, or a simple default success page
• Optional "mailto" link for the webmaster's e-mail address on the result pages.
• Error logging.
• Logs the user's IP address in a Received line of the e-mail, for security and tracking purposes.
• Cross-platform. Should run on any platform that supports Python. (This includes Windows, Unices, and Macintosh.)
• Free. (Python is also free.)
• Source code available.

Planned Features:

• Allow attachment of a file to the e-mail.
• Support for Internationalization (i.e. foreign language support)
• Level of error logging is configurable and optional.

System Requirements:

• Python 1.5.2 or better. (Tested with Apache web server running Python 1.5.2 on Linux and with Apache web server running Python 2.2 on Win2K .)
• A web server configured to run cgi scripts.

Samples:
These working samples are included in the distribution package (excepting the FeedBack Form). You can quickly set them up, change the e-mail addresses, and try them out yourself. Samples 1 - 5 send their data to /dev/null (i.e. the bit-bucket). The FeedBack Form sends an email to the program author, and will optionally cc: a copy to you, so you can see the results of sending the mail.

• Sample1: A product survey form. Example of check boxes and radio buttons. No required fields.
• Sample2: A feed back form. All fields in this form are "required", so you can see what the error messages look like when required fields are left blank.
• Sample3: A mailing list management form.
• Sample4: A password/registration form that asks for e-mail and password to be entered twice, to check against typos.
• Sample5: Same as Sample1, except it demonstrates using the Success Page Options with setting = 2.
• Sample6: Same as Sample1 and Sample5, except demonstrates using the Success Page Options with setting=3.
• FeedBack Form: This form is intended for sending feedback about GypsyMail. Also demonstrates use of the templated-success-pages available with version 0.7.0.
• For more ideas on how you could use GypsyMail, visit the cgiemail Example Page. You can do anything with GypsyMail that you can do with cgiemail.

Download:
The full package, as a .zip file (about 45 kb)
The full package as a .tar.gz archive (about 34 kb)

The full package includes the following files:

• gypsymail.py (the script)
• gypsyutils.py (helper functions for the main script)
• defaultconfig.txt (config file)
• gypsymail.err (error log file)
• gpl.txt (GNU Public License)
• gypsydoc.html (instructions and documentation)
• readme.txt
  

and these sample files:

• sample1.html (product survey form)
• sample2.html (feedback form)
• sample3.html (mailing list (un)subscribe/submit form)
• sample4.html (registration w/ password verification)
• sample5.html (sample1 with different success options)
• sample6.html (sample1 with another success option)
  
• sample1.txt (text template for sample1.html)
• sample2.txt (text template for sample2.html)
• sample3.txt (text template for sample3.html)
• sample4.txt (text template for sample4.html)
• config5.txt (config file for sample5.html)
• config6.txt (config file for sample6.html)

Announcement only mailing list,
regarding update announcements.
Only the list-owner/moderator, Sheila King, is able to post to this list. It will be very low volume. The privacy policy: Your email address will only be used to deliver announcement messages to you, and for no other purpose.

To subscribe to the list:
Send an e-mail message to gypsy-announce-subscribe@lists.thinkspot.net

An automated confirmation message will be sent to you, and you will have to reply to it in order to confirm your subscription.

Last Updated Thursday, June 08 2006 @ 08:33 AM