Mailto: Email not Contact Form
Form Attracts SPAM
Costly to Secure
No Record of Content
Address not verified
No Receipt of Send
No Contact Form?
No! In my 20+ years of building and maintaining websites, I have found the contact form ATTRACTS spam. I know this is contrary to what the “experts” tell you, but look at those who are telling you otherwise. Most are resellers of some forms package! I’m not selling any forms package. I’m selling ease of use to my customer’s viewers. Most contact forms do not provide a receipt of the contents of the contact form after it has been sent so the website viewer has no record of what was sent. I myself find this very frustrating.
The solution is to open the email client and format the email to be sent and let the viewer send it directly from their own email client tool. Now they have a record of exactly what was sent and YOU know that the email they provided is correct!
No SPAM!
Receipt in Sent Folder
Record of What Was Sent
Email Address is Verified
FREE!
Bottom line is my preference is to use the mailto: behind a button instead of a forms package. If you as a client insist on the contact form, it will be very expensive to build and provide all the security needed to prevent the spam that is attracted. Better and more cost effective to just say NO!