{"id":23215,"date":"2018-11-14T12:10:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T10:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hetzner.co.za\/help-centre\/?p=23215"},"modified":"2022-11-10T11:49:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T09:49:19","slug":"formmail-not-supported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/website\/formmail-not-supported\/","title":{"rendered":"Why formmail.pl is no longer supported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Formmail.pl, the form-to-email script, is no longer recommended and <strong>will be removed from our servers on 14 December 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While this flexible script was used extensively in the past, the script has not been updated by the authors in many years and it poses a potential security risk to your website and our servers.<\/p>\n<p>It is not feasible for us to keep up with patching and support for old software that is not able to function correctly in a modern server environment.<\/p>\n<p>If your website still includes a formmail contact form, users submitting information via your contact form will see an error message which informs them that a problem has occurred.<\/p>\n<h2>Alternatives to formmail<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3schools.in\/php\/mail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PHP mail() Function<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/formspree.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Formspree.io<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/tags\/gravity-forms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WordPress Gravity Forms<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/typeform.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Typeform.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false,"plain":"Formmail.pl, the form-to-email script, is no longer recommended and <strong>will be removed from our servers on 14 December 2018.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nWhile this flexible script was used extensively in the past, the script has not been updated by the authors in many years and it poses a potential security risk to your website and our servers.\r\n\r\nIt is not feasible for us to keep up with patching and support for old software that is not able to function correctly in a modern server environment.\r\n\r\nIf your website still includes a formmail contact form, users submitting information via your contact form will see an error message which informs them that a problem has occurred.\r\n<h2>Alternatives to formmail<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3schools.in\/php\/mail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PHP mail() Function<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/formspree.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Formspree.io<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/tags\/gravity-forms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WordPress Gravity Forms<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/typeform.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener 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