how can send an email with attachment from an html form

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Re: how can send an email with attachment from an html form by ph0enix (Friar) on Nov 29, 2002 at 09:36 UTC
Email must be send directly from form? Your browser must be properly configured - main problem `<form action='mailto:address@somewhere.com' method='post' name='myfrm' + enctype='multipart/form-data'> <input type='file' name='file1'> <input type='submit' name='submit' value='send email'> </form>` [download] I suggest to use perl script on server side.Web servers are usually properly configured, but web browsers not... `<form action='emailsend.pl' method='post' name='myfrm' enctype='multip +art/form-data'> ...` [download] For simple sending email with attachement is usable high level module Mail::Sender	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: how can send an email with attachment from an html form by Anonymous Monk on Feb 17, 2020 at 21:22 UTC
This is exactly what I'm looking for, but it's not working on my site. Where do I place the 2nd part of this code?	[reply]
Re^2: how can send an email with attachment from an html form by marto (Cardinal) on Feb 18, 2020 at 07:49 UTC
This thread is very old. I'd suggest looking at MIME::Lite for your email sending needs.	[reply]
Re^3: how can send an email with attachment from an html form by 1nickt (Canon) on Feb 19, 2020 at 04:18 UTC
Um, from the doc for MIME::Lite (for several years now): MIME::Lite is not recommended by its current maintainer. There are a number of alternatives, like Email::MIME or MIME::Entity and Email::Sender, which you should probably use instead. MIME::Lite continues to accrue weird bug reports, and it is not receiving a large amount of refactoring due to the availability of better alternatives. Please consider using something else. The way forward always starts with a minimal test.	[reply]