Forms: reply to several collected e-mail addresses

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I want to collect e-mail addresses of a group of people with a web form.

Is it correct, that netlify currently only inserts one field of type email when I press reply in the notification?
It would be great if reply (all) would go to all email addresses collected.

Thanks!

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Hey @net-user,

For that, you could make use of the submission-created Function and send an email to yourself with the required fields.

3

Thanks, hrishikesh, for your immediate reply!

I am not a specialist - how could this look like roughly?
Empty (not required) fields no problem? Reply to would just be "first-email@example.com, , , "?
Thanks in advance!

4

I was talking more about deploying your own Serverless Function to send emails something like here:

In that you could set your own reply-to addresses.

5

Thanks again!

This would be an automatic reply to a form submission?
I need a custom reply - so the addresses should show up when I press reply to (all) in my e-mail program when viewing the automatic notification from netlify.
I could add the addresses manually from the form notification, but an automatic solution would be nicer.

Propose it as a feature request?

Thanks again!

6

Hey @net-user,

By customising the code snippet I suggested, you could send custom emails as form notifications to yourself and this could include all the emails you wish to reply to.

We can add this as a feature request, but the chances of this being added in the short time are slim. We don’t support even a single reply-to address at the moment, supporting multiple would take even longer. Which is why I suggested you to write your own solution so you could get it working right now.

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Thanks!

In Win 10 / Outlook 365, it works! When I click reply, the e-mail address from the email type field is inserted, not formresponses@netlify.com. Maybe, because the name is “ReplyTo”?

By the way:
When an email type field has the name “email”, I do not get any notifications at all. On app.netlify.com they are displayed however. When I change to another name, it works.

So, should I submit a feature request and a bug report?

Thanks!

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I do not really know JS yet - I just know how to find hints …
Would the following workaround be acceptable JS?

<script>
  function alladdresses() {
    document.getElementById("replyto").multiple = true;
    document.getElementById("replyto").value = document.getElementById("address1").value + ", " + document.getElementById("address2").value;
  }
</script>

and

onchange="alladdresses()"

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That totally depends on what you’re trying. I am not understanding that you’re trying to achieve with the above code snippet as that doesn’t seem totally related to the problem you mentioned above.

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press reply in Outlook (form entries visible in reply) and copy / paste the value of the replyto field into the to field of Outlook in order to reply to all

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hi there net-user, i am having a litlte trouble following along. Could you explain what you are trying to do in a different way?

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<input type="email" multiple>

solved - thank you!

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