Step 2: Call the MailTo CGI

When a form is submitted, the MailTo CGI sends the results of the form to a specified cmu.edu address. To specify the required email address, do the following:

1. Edit the form line adding an action set to the URL of the MailTo CGI and a method set to "post". Depending on where you are publishing to, and assuming that you have named the form "myform", enter the line as follows:
   
   
   • If you are using the Andrew Web publishing system or Content Management System (CMS) to publish on www.cmu.edu enter one of the following:
     
     Web-ISO restricted pages:
     <form id="myform" name="myform" method="post" action="https://www.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/mailto">
      
     Pages that are not restricted:
     <form id="myform" name="myform" method="post" action="http://www.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/mailto"> 
   • If you are publishing on www.andrew.cmu.edu, enter the line as follows:
     
     <form id="myform" name="myform" method="post" action="http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/mailto">
2. Add the hidden field, "MailTo" with the value set to the email address that will receive the form results. Be sure to add the line after the <form> tag but before the </form> tag.) The "MailTo" hidden field has the format:
   
   <input name="MailTo" type="hidden" value="userid@realm" />
   
   Where userid@realm is the email address of the person who should receive the mail.
3. If you want, add the hidden field, "MailCC" with the value set to the email address of a second person or a bulletin board who will receive the form results. Be sure to add the line after the <form> tag but before the closing </form> tag. The "MailCC" hidden field has the format:
   
   <input name="MailCC" type="hidden" value="userid@realm" />
   
   Where userid@realm is the e-mail address of the person who should be cc'd on the mail, or the bulletin board that you want to cc to.
   
   Note: When posting to a bulletin board, you must prefix the bboard name with "post+". For example, to post to the bboard at org.acs.documentation, you would enter that value as post+org.acs.documentation@andrew.cmu.edu.
   
   See the examples below to view the detailed HTML:

• Example 2 www.cmu.edu offers a detailed visual example of this form's HTML when publishing to www.cmu.edu.
• Example 2 www.andrew.cmu.edu offers a detailed visual example of this form's HTML when publishing to www.andrew.cmu.edu.

4. If the email address you specified above is going to a cmu.edu address (such as @andrew.cmu.edu, @cs.cmu.edu, etc.), continue with Step 4: Format the Response or Redirect Page (Optional).
   
   If the email address you specified is going to an address outside of the cmu.edu domain, follow Step 3: Adding Approved Email Addresses. The MailTo CGI will send email to any recipient within the cmu.edu domain, but to prevent abuse by spammers, it will ONLY send mail to non-cmu.edu email addresses if an authenticated Andrew user approves the destination email address in advance.