Forwarding a PHP generated Email

[Anon]

Is there a way of adding a button to an email received from a PHP form so that the form is automatically forwarded to another address after.

So basically, the email will be received and the recipient can click the button to automatically forward the email to another address (this address will always be the same)

Don't know if it makes any difference, but the email is HTML.

[Anon]

Well, whatever you're talking about will be client-side.

You can easily send the e-mail to several addresses from your original PHP-script, I assume you understand that.

The ''forward'' function belongs exclusively to the e-mail client, and cannot be controlled by the e-mail itself (to my knowledge). It may be possible to insert some sort of form into the mail body, though. This, however, will most certainly not work on all e-mail clients.

I.e. (this is just THOUGHTS, I have never tried);

<form action="http://your.host.com/forwardMail.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="mailContents" value="<mail contents>">
<input type="submit" value="Forward this message">
</form>

(you may be able to use javascript to get the mail contents dynamically, put the in a div tag and use divname.innerHTML)

Then write forwardMail.php to send a new e-mail to a designated address. The contents would obviously be whatever is in $mailContents (from the form). I'm not sure if this will work, but it's an idea.

Alternately, I'd say a better way to go is just send the e-mail to both addresses at once. There may exist some header like Forward-to, so you can make the client have a default forward address, but I've never seen one.

Good luck 😉

[Anon]

I thought that would be the answer!
Unfortunately, they require the email content to be checked before forwarding so the multiple addresses won't work.

Thanks anyway