This is an extension to Kotti that allows to add a simple contact form
to your site.
Development happens at https://github.com/Kotti/kotti_contactform
To enable the extension in your Kotti site, activate the configurator:
kotti.configurators =
kotti_settings.kotti_configure
kotti_contactform.kotti_configurePlease note that kotti_contactform >= 0.4 depends on kotti_settings,
so you have to list it in your kotti.configurators too.
kotti_contactform uses pyramid_mailer for sending mails and
tries to use your mailserver at localhost:25. If these defaults don't
fit your needs, you have to configure pyramid_mailer:
http://packages.python.org/pyramid_mailer/
If you add kotti_contactform to an existing Kotti site (i.e. a Kotti
installation with an already existing database), you have to
initialize the database migration with Kotti's kotti-migrate
console script: kotti-migrate
stamp_head --scripts=kotti_contactform:alembic.
If you upgrade to version 0.1.1 or 0.4 you have to migrate your
database. The migration is performed with alembic and Kotti's
console script kotti-migrate. To migrate, run kotti-migrate
upgrade_all --scripts=kotti_contactform:alembic.
For integration of alembic in your environment please refer to the alembic documentation. If you have problems with the upgrade, please create a new issue in the tracker.
Point your browser to http://your.domain/@@settings to get to the settings page or use the submenupoint of 'Site Setup'.
You can specify a default sender address that will be used as the default for newly created contact forms.
You can also enable the use of a captcha in your contact forms. For the captcha the reCAPTCHA service is used. You have to sign up to get a key pair in order to use the service on your site. In the settings you have to save your public and your private key. Have a look at https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/ to sign up and get your keys.
Contributions to kotti_contactform are highly welcome.
Just clone its Github repository and submit your contributions as pull requests.
When developing kotti_contactform it can be useful to have a dummy SMTP server that doesn't actually send emails but prints them to the console.
Fortunately this is very easy with Python:
sudo python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025