MailBear is an open source, self hosted forms backend. Just do a post request to the API with some form data, and MailBear will make sure the submission is sent to you via mail!
MailBear will always hide the email address of the recepient, since the forms are accessed by a unique key.
You can easily run MailBear with Docker:
Copy config_sample.yml to config.yml and run the server:
docker run -v $(PWD)/config.yml:/mailbear/config.yml denbeke/mailbear
For your convenience I created a docker-compose.yml file.
Copy config_sample.yml to config.yml and run the server:
go run cmd/mailbear/main.go
Configuration is very simple. Just create as many forms as you want in config.yml:
global:
smtp:
host: smtp.example.com
port: 25
user:
password:
disable_tls: true
from_email: no-reply@example.com
from_name: MailBear
http:
address: ":1234"
forms:
some-form-name:
key: some-random-key
allowed_domains:
- localhost:8080
- example.com
to_email:
- recepient@example.comOnce MailBear is running you can send requests with form data in the JSON body:
curl \
-X POST \
http://localhost:1234/api/v1/form/some-random-key \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Origin: http://localhost:8080' \
-d '{"name":"Joe","email":"joe@example.com", "subject": "Some subject", "content": "Maecenas faucibus mollis interdum. Sed posuere consectetur est at lobortis."}'<template>
<div id="contact">
<div class="form" >
<form @submit.prevent="submit">
<div class="form-overlay" v-if="loading">
<font-awesome-icon icon="circle-notch" spin />
</div><!-- form-overlay -->
<div>
<div class="status" v-if="status !== ''">
<span v-if="status === 'success'">Your email has successfully been sent.</span>
<span v-if="status === 'error'">Something went wrong while sending your email.</span>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<input type="text" name="name" v-model="form_data.name" placeholder="Name or Company" required />
</div>
<div>
<input type="email" name="email" v-model="form_data.email" placeholder="Email" required />
</div>
<div>
<input type="text" name="subject" v-model="form_data.subject" placeholder="Subject" required />
</div>
<div>
<textarea type="text" name="content" v-model="form_data.content" placeholder="Message" rows="6" required />
</div>
<div>
<button type="submit">Send</button>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div><!-- contact -->
</template>
<script>
import config from '../config'
export default {
name: 'Contact',
components: {
},
data: function() {
return {
contact_text: "",
form_data: {
name: "",
email: "",
subject: "",
content: ""
},
status: "",
loading: false
}
},
created() {
},
mounted() {
},
methods: {
clearForm: function() {
this.form_data.name = "";
this.form_data.email = "";
this.form_data.subject = "";
this.form_data.content = "";
},
submit: function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
var self = this
self.loading = true
this.axios.post(config.MAILBEAR_URL + `/api/v1/form/10810dce-1074-4988-a8f5-4c538a749a95`, this.form_data)
.then(response => {
self.status = "success"
self.clearForm()
return response
})
.catch(error => {
self.status = "error"
console.log(error)
})
.then(function () {
// always executed
self.loading = false
})
}
}
}
</script>
<style lang="scss">
/*
* Style was left out of this example.
* Go find it in ./examples/vuejs_example.vue
*/
</style><form id="contact-form" class="pure-form">
<div class="meta">
<input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Naam">
<input type="email" name="email" placeholder="Email">
<input type="text" name="subject" placeholder="Subject">
</div><!-- .meta -->
<textarea name="content" placeholder="Your message" rows="7"></textarea>
<button type="submit" class="">
<i class="fa fa-send-o"></i> Send
</button>
<div class="overlay">
<div>
</div>
</div><!-- .overlay -->
</form>
<script>
$( document ).ready(function() {
var $contactForm = $('#contact-form');
$contactForm.submit(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
$.ajax({
url: 'https://mailbear.yourdomain.com/api/v1/form/10810dce-1074-4988-a8f5-4c538a749a95',
method: 'POST',
data: $(this).serialize(),
dataType: 'json',
beforeSend: function() {
$contactForm.find('.overlay div').html('<div class="alert alert--loading"><i class="fa fa-circle-o-notch fa-spin"></i> Sending message...</div>');
$contactForm.find('.overlay').fadeIn();
},
success: function(data) {
$contactForm.find('.alert--loading').hide();
$contactForm.find('.overlay div').html('<div class="alert alert--success"><i class="fa fa-check"></i> Your message was sent successfully!</div>');
$contactForm.find('.overlay').fadeIn();
},
error: function(err) {
$contactForm.find('.alert--loading').hide();
$contactForm.find('.overlay div').html('<div class="alert alert--error"><i class="fa fa-warning"></i> Ooops, something went wrong.</div>');
$contactForm.find('.overlay').fadeIn();
}
});
});
$contactForm.find('.overlay').click(function(e) {
$(this).fadeOut();
});
});
</script>Prometheus metrics can be found on :9090/metrics by default. To get statistics of submissions per form use this metric: mailbear_form_submissions_total{form="some-form-name"}.
A Grafana dashboard for these metrics is available here: ./grafana/dashboard.json
