Conditional recipients

Last updated June 13, 2011. Created by batigolix on June 23, 2008.
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To use the conditional recipient you add a webform component of the type "select".

While building the webform:

Click the "Webform" tab that lists components in the form
Enter name of field, e.g. "Kind of inquiry"
Choose "select"
Click "add"

The "Edit component" screen appears

Enter a Label and Field key e.g. "Kind of inquiry", "kind_inquiry"
In the field "options" add a couple of key-value pairs like

info@example.com|General information
johnpaul@example.com|Sales question
joseph@example.com|Technical question

The user will be presented the readable option while the key remains invisible.

Save your changes
Select "Configuration" and choose "Kind of enquiry" under "Conditional e-mail recipients"

After the component has been set up, you now need to configure the e-mail.

Under the "Webform" tab, click the sub-tab for "E-mails".
Choose the component you set up with e-mail keys to be the recipient and click "Add".
Configure the e-mail setting as needed and save.

Comments

But the email is still in the source code

Posted by bwoods on December 15, 2008 at 9:51pm

Maybe I'm missing something here, but isn't the email still readable in the source code? I'd like to avoid having readable emails in the source, even though they aren't visible to a typical form user.

I found this thread

Posted by raimondious on January 8, 2009 at 9:39pm

I found this thread helpful:
#246810: Please explain 'Conditional e-mail recipients' and 'E-mail a submission copy'

Link to issue

Posted by koyama on September 20, 2009 at 11:28pm

Here seems to be the relevant issue:
#462932: Encode emails in select drop-downs to prevent email harvesting

Doesn't really solve the issue.

Posted by escoles on January 25, 2011 at 6:23pm

To be clear: At this writing (January 2011), this technique still results in email addresses being stored in clear text in the HTML. Email-harvesters will find them without a problem.

Conditional email recipients

Posted by ilebolt on January 13, 2009 at 3:49pm

I've used webform successfully in other places. I'm a bit stymied on this one.

The form displays for the selection field.
two
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Disappearing Conditional Email recipients

Posted by guysaban on January 19, 2009 at 9:15pm

I have the same issue where I have various countries (in the select list) associated with the same email. So, if region one and region two have the same email address only the first option (region one) appears in the select list.

quicksketch referred me to:

Posted by guysaban on January 19, 2009 at 11:15pm

quicksketch referred me to: #282436: Multiple Options, Same Value in 'Select' Form Element

Tricking Drupal webforms into allowing multiple options with the

Posted by johnshih on April 29, 2011 at 5:47am

I found this website which allow webforms to use the same key value for multiple options.

http://www.interworks.com/blogs/gbivens/2010/06/04/tricking-drupal-webfo...

Here is an example:

hook_mail_alter(), non-unique addresses, and exposed addresses

Posted by Eric At NRD on February 22, 2009 at 8:33pm

I recently ran into both of the issues commented on above (that recipient addresses must be unique, and addresses are exposed in the page markup).

My solution was to use hook_mail_alter() to set up a list of email "aliases" (such as "orders_at_example"), that are replaced with actual email addresses when they appear in the to: field when Webform sends the message via drupal_mail().

So in Webform you set up a select with something like this:

orders_at_example|Orders
customer_service_at_example|Customer Service
technical_support_at_example|Technical Support

And then in hook_mail_alter() you replace "orders_at_example", "customer_service_at_example", and "technical_support_at_example" with the actual email address (or addresses).

So a really simple example would look like the following:

<?php
/**
 * Implementation of hook_mail_alter().
 */
function emerj_overrides_mail_alter(&$message) {
  $search = 'orders_at_example';
  $replace = 'orders@example.com';
  $message['to'] = str_replace($search,$replace,$message['to']);
}
?>

More Detailed Example

Posted by Eric At NRD on February 22, 2009 at 8:55pm

I've posted a more detailed explanation and example using hook_mail_alter() on my blog if anyone needs it.

-Eric

getting content from the database

Posted by gmahesha on November 16, 2010 at 11:53am

Hello friend,
is it posssible to get the data ( columns email id, state) from the database and to display it in the webform select component.?? then i will use Conditional e-mail recipients for this one.. i am struck with how to get the database content. If you know , plz informe me.. Thanks in advance.

< ---- Maddy ----->

Reusable module to create email aliases

Posted by msmithgu on November 1, 2011 at 5:38pm

I ran into this issue and didn't want to make user email addresses public either, so I created a reusable module that effects fake email address aliases. So in an admin panel you can just enter aliases to reuse across your site (including the aforementioned webform options).

Say you want to protect Amy, Bob, Carla and Doug's email addresses in a webform with conditional email recipients:

For Email Aliases at /admin/settings/email-alter you'd enter:
corporate@example.net | Bob@example.net, Carla@example.net, Doug@example.net meetings@example.net | Amy@example.net, Bob@example.net legal@example.net | Carla@example.net help@example.net | Amy@example.net, Bob@example.net, Carla@example.net
In the webform select options you'd enter:
corporate@example.net|Corporate meetings@example.net|Meetings legal@example.net|Legal help@example.net|Help

I posted my module at https://github.com/msmithgu/email_alter for anyone that runs into a similar issue.

can you have more than one

Posted by beckyjohnson on June 9, 2009 at 4:43pm

can you have more than one email address per option?
So what If i wanted

example@email.com, example2@email.com| No

(no being a check box)

Yes, you can send to more than one

Posted by adougherty on July 23, 2009 at 6:02pm

but I think only as long as they are unique

So..

person1@foo.com,person2@foo.com|Apples
person3@foo.com|Pears
person4@foo.com|Grapes

but not

person1@foo.com,person2@foo.com|Apples
person2@foo.com|Pears
person3@foo.com|Grapes

at least not without using hook_mail_alter()

hth,
Anne

Strange...

Posted by koyama on September 20, 2009 at 11:08pm

Strange if it is working? I found this in the issue queue indicating that it should not be working:
#339416: Multiple email address for an option in the Options field?

Clarification

Posted by quicksketch on December 21, 2009 at 9:09am

Webform does ~~not~~ allow multiple e-mail addresses within a single select list option. It does allow multiple e-mail address to be used on the main e-mail configuration options, which is accessible only to users that may edit the actual Webform node.

EDIT: Well it seems that Webform does support multiple e-mails in select lists or hidden fields. The current code clearly seems to support it.

Nathan Haug
_{creative graphic design w: quicksketch.org

& software development e: nate@quicksketch.org}

multiple email recipients partial EASY solution

Posted by muddum on December 11, 2009 at 11:49pm

The + trick would not work for us but I have no time to do custom modules for our launch. Here is a simple solution (but still leaves email addresses for harvesting). Make the values unique by adding a number to what would be duplicate values...

btw - this is not my idea I am just passing it along and seemed to work for us on Acquia Drupal v6 iis7 win2008 w/Exchange as mailserver.

As far as I can tell, this

Posted by escoles on January 25, 2011 at 4:31pm

As far as I can tell, this does not work.

Storing value rather than key?

Posted by ongdesign on January 15, 2010 at 8:19pm

Is there a way to implement this as shown, but store the value (e.g., General information) in the database rather than the key (info@someorganisation.va)? I'm sure it's a little snippet under Additional Processing... but this seems like a pretty common use case.

I'm specifically thinking about the Table and Download report views...

Avoid sending selected values to all recipients

Posted by rolfmadsen on September 24, 2010 at 1:24pm

Is it possible to avoid sending information to all recipients of the selected values that are not related to their e-mail?

Examle:

bob@mail.com|newsletter on music
anne@mail.com|newsletter on non-fiction
peter@mail.com|newsletter on fiction

A user selects newsletter on music and newsletter on non-fiction and presses "Send form"

Now both Bob and Anne gets an e-mail where they can see both selections.
I would like bob to only see that the user has selected the newsletter on music which is relevant to him.

Configuration Button

Posted by allio_froggio on November 16, 2011 at 3:08pm

I need someone to put me out of my misery...unlike everyone else, I seem to be having trouble with something super basic - finding the "Configuration" link.

It's this step:
Select "Configuration" and choose "Kind of enquiry" under "Conditional e-mail recipients"

I mean, I assumed it meant the regular configuration in the main admin menu, but, the only option I have there is Content Authoring > Webform Settings. And I can't find anything about "Conditional Email Recipients." This is the same page that links to the "Configure" option beside the webform module on the modules menu item.

I am begging someone to just tell me what the heck I should click after saving my select list. I'm back on the webform tab that displays all the fiels on my webform and the options that I have are "Form components," "emails," and "form settings."

On, and I'm using D7 with the latest release of webform.

Apparently in D7, you can

Posted by allio_froggio on November 16, 2011 at 3:48pm

Apparently in D7, you can just skip this step.

I added in the key/values as demo'ed and then added that component under the Emails button. It sends it to the value entered, no problem. But I didn't specify anything about "Conditional Emails" anywhere. Is this just how it's done in D7 or am I missing something?

Hi everyone, Did this get

Posted by samwillc on January 24, 2012 at 7:19pm

Hi everyone,

Did this get solved? I also wanted to use multiple emails for different departments in a select list but that functionality is no use if the emails are printed in the source code.

Sam.