Looking for a contact form solution

Howdy Drupal Community,

I have done a couple hours of research on this problem and have not found something that meets all my needs and I hoping that someone else here has worked through this and built some kind of recipe that bridges the gaps here.

I have a site that will have about 200 people (authors and the like) that can be contacted through the site. Some people may find the information on the site controversial so we want to make sure that we are not putting author information out on the web without any filters. I want to make sure that anonymous users can send email to the authors without giving the authors email and ideally being able to track the use of the form and throttle its use to prevent SPAMing.

Webform is the perfect solution because it separates users from email addresses, tracks form uses and throttles form submissions from registered and anonymous users. The problem with webform is as best as I can tell I would need to keep an author list in webform to email a specific author with it or pass the email in plain text through the URL. If there is a way to pass the UID and then send an email via the UID that would be the perfect solution.

Any suggestions of how to approach this are very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Steve

Steve Kessler

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The problem with the contact form module  (http://drupal.org/project/contact_forms) that I think you are talking about is that you have to configure it separately. It would be very helpful if this could be done only with a CCK field having an email.

Thanks,

Steve

Steve Kessler ha scritto:

I have a site that will have about 200 people (authors and the like) that can be contacted through the site. Some people may find the information on the site controversial so we want to make sure that we are not putting author information out on the web without any filters. I want to make sure that anonymous users can send email to the authors without giving the authors email and ideally being able to track the use of the form and throttle its use to prevent SPAMing.

Hi, I think that the contact module is the best for your situation.

M.

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The problem with the contact form module  (http://drupal.org/project/contact_forms) that I think you are talking about is that you have to configure it separately. It would be very helpful if this could be done only with a CCK field having an email.

Thanks,

Steve

Steve Kessler ha scritto:

I have a site that will have about 200 people (authors and the like) that can be contacted through the site. Some people may find the information on the site controversial so we want to make sure that we are not putting author information out on the web without any filters. I want to make sure that anonymous users can send email to the authors without giving the authors email and ideally being able to track the use of the form and throttle its use to prevent SPAMing.

Hi, I think that the contact module is the best for your situation.

M.

-- 

Michel 'ZioBudda' Morelli                       michel@...

Sviluppo applicazioni CMS DRUPAL e web dinamiche (LAMP+Ajax)

Telefono: 0200619074

Telefono Cell: +39-3939890025 --  Fax: +39-0291390660

http://www.ziobudda.net                         ICQ: 58351764  

http://www.ziobuddalabs.it                      Skype: zio_budda

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The  Drupal contact module does not work for non-registered users which is a must for this project.

Thanks,

Steve

Steve Kessler ha scritto:

The problem with the contact form module  (http://drupal.org/project/contact_forms) that I think you are talking about is that you have to configure it separately. It would be very helpful if this could be done only with a CCK field having an email.

"contact forms" ?
I have talked about "contatc" module that coming with every drupal installation (it is disabled for default).

>From the help:
"Personal contact forms allow users to be contacted via e-mail, while keeping recipient e-mail addresses private. Users may enable or disable their personal
contact forms by editing their <em>My account</em> page. If enabled, a <em>Contact</em> tab leading to their personal contact form is available on their user profile. Site administrat
ors have access to all personal contact forms (even if they have been disabled). The <em>Contact</em> tab is only visible when viewing another user's profile (users do not see their o
wn <em>Contact</em> tab)"


M.

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Telefono: 0200619074

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Its all good.  Thank you for trying to help.

I have given this lots of thought and that is why I brought to the support list.

Might there be a way to do a form processor function that would take a hidden field with a UID and turn it into an email from that UID?

Thanks,

Steve

Steve Kessler ha scritto:

The  Drupal contact module does not work for non-registered users which is a must for this project.

ops...
Sorry.

M.

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Telefono: 0200619074

Telefono Cell: +39-3939890025 --  Fax: +39-0291390660

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http://www.ziobuddalabs.it                      Skype: zio_budda

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