And yet, despite of all said, I am baffled that having made the effort to package and give the script away, I'm simply asked to fold it back. It truly is a disappointing loss of my time ...

I guess my statement regarding the world not needing yet another mailform program is driven by two things:

• The damage done by Matt Wright with his buggy mailform script
• The excellent work done by the NMS team to both recreate an upward compatible replacement, and continue to maintain and support the script for free

If you were not aware of the NMS version of mailform, perhaps a bit more research on your part would have been advised. It would have saved you time and resources. You could have used that time to create something unique, instead of retreading a far-too-rewritten area, and poorly.