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Forms to email
Send submissions straight to your inbox without writing a backend.
Email is where most form submissions are meant to land, and it is the part that breaks most often. These guides cover sending without SMTP, what a form backend does on your behalf, and why notifications get filtered.
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Why Your Contact Form Emails Land in Spam (and How to Fix It)
Most form notifications land in spam for one reason: the From address is the person who filled the form. Here's why that fails authentication, and what to send instead.
5 min read
Send Email From an HTML Form — No SMTP, No PHP
What SMTP actually is, why your HTML form can't speak it (and shouldn't), and the modern setup that emails you submissions with zero mail servers.
4 min read
How to Send an HTML Form to Your Email (Without a Backend)
Why mailto: and PHP mail() let you down on a static site — and the reliable way to get form submissions into your inbox, spam folder avoided.
6 min read