Mail form in Bulma theme

Peter

Hi,

First of all, thank you for building this wonderful tool. I love that it is so lightweight and 'open'.

I am trying to get the mail extension to work. I selected Alpha as the main theme. I added my email address to the email field on the page with the Alpha/contact template. I see the form correctly on the page. I can enter a message and click 'send mail'. But messages entered in the form do not arrive in my email inbox. Also, the success or error message is not shown after clicking the 'send mail' button. What could be the problem? Is it something in Bulma, or something with my server? (I am using one.com). I checked in debug mode in the browser console, but I got no error messages or warnings, except for:
Error: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource. Bron-URL: moz-extension://30cc37c6-c066-4415-b200-23d9c4a8f127/lib/tp/browser-polyfill.min.js Brontoewijzings-URL: browser-polyfill.min.js.map
The honeypot field is hidden, so the page can find the mail.css file.
I tested in firefox and edge.

Second question, after I get the above to work, would the steps below be sufficient to get the mail functionality to work in the Bulma theme?

Copy the mail folder (including it's 3 files) to be a subfolder of dahmen.
In the mail.php file change the namespace to dahmen
Copy the email_form.php snippet to the automad-bulma snippets folder. In it, replace 'standard/mail' with 'dahmen/mail'. Also replace some classes to adhere to Bulma css.
Create a contact.php template in the automad-bulma folder. With <@ snippets/email_form.php @> in it.
In automad-bulma/theme.json add the following fields:
"email": "Your contact email address",
"notificationMailError": "Notification text for errors when sendig an email form",
"notificationMailSuccess": "Notification text after successfully sending email",
"placeholderEmail": "Placeholder text for email input field",
"placeholderMessage": "Placeholder text for the message body field",
"placeholderSubject": "Placeholder text for the subject input field",
In the automad dashboard, on the contact page, add my e-mail address to the e-mail field.

Thanks very much in advance.

mad

Peter Hi, thank you! The first issue could have to do with your web server. It must be configured to be able to send mail. Any shared hosting service should work fine out of the box. But when using XAMPP on a local machine, it has to be configured manually.

Regarding the second issue, your approach is perfectly fine. Alternatively you could keep the original directory of the mail extension without making a copy and use that one without modifying the namespace. Both works.

But please be careful with updates when modifying packages. The best would be to duplicate the theme package before making changes in order to avoid loosing those modifications on updates.

😜

Peter

Hi Mad, thanks for the tips, I got it to work!