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Files used in setting up new web design in LibGuides v2 and elsewhere
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Replace Ask Us by Email form #36

Closed tomkeays closed 6 years ago

tomkeays commented 6 years ago

The Library has an email form at: http://resources.library.lemoyne.edu/askus/by-email

We were using a JotForm for web-based email submissions but LibraryH3lp's spam filter began flagging those emails pretty consistently after over a year of no problems. The two biggest contributors to the spam score were 1) HTML-only (no text version) and 2) the From field is base-64 encoded. Although there was a possible remediation to the JotForm, at least with regard to the second point, we didn't have a paid account, so it ultimately didn't seem feasible.

LibraryH3lp now offers access to its own mail server and has documentation for coding the forms: https://docs.libraryh3lp.com/3mail-forms

They also coded up an example for us that works: https://chatstaff.us/testbed/lemoyne-email-form.html

tomkeays commented 6 years ago

Working Form: http://lemoynelibrary.org/contact/index.html Embed Form: http://lemoynelibrary.org/contact/embed-form.html

The latter is the version to embed into LibGuides - it lacks the redundant calls to Bootstrap and jQuery of the working version.