Use case · Form to email
Send a form to your email, no backend required
HTML alone cannot email you a form: something on a server has to receive the POST and send the message. mailto: links open the visitor's own mail app and silently lose everyone without one configured. The reliable pattern is a form endpoint: point your form's action at a URL that receives the submission and emails it to you. Formward is that endpoint, with spam filtering in front and EU storage behind.
The whole setup
Create a form in Formward, copy the endpoint URL, and set it as your form's action. That is the entire integration; it works on plain HTML, static site generators, and every JavaScript framework.
<form action="https://forms.formward.eu/f/your-endpoint" method="POST">
<input type="email" name="email" placeholder="Your email" required />
<textarea name="message" placeholder="Your message" required></textarea>
<!-- honeypot: keep hidden -->
<input type="text" name="_gotcha" style="display:none" tabindex="-1" autocomplete="off" />
<button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>Each submission is emailed to the addresses you configure and stored in your dashboard, so your inbox is never the only copy. Multiple recipients, custom subjects and reply-to-the-submitter are settings, not code.
Better than a raw relay
- Spam never reaches your inbox. Honeypot, heuristics, rate limiting, and optional Cloudflare Turnstile run before any email is sent. No Google reCAPTCHA involved.
- A record beyond the email. Every submission is searchable and exportable in the dashboard. Deleting an email no longer means losing the lead.
- EU data, even with a non-EU inbox. If your notification address is Gmail or another non-EU provider, the optional link-only mode sends a notification with no submission content at all; you read the actual data in the EU-hosted dashboard.
- Attachments handled. On paid plans, visitors can attach files; they are stored in the EU and linked from the notification rather than clogging your inbox.
Where to go next
The quickstart covers responses and redirects, the form library has ready-made markup for common forms, and there is a step-by-step guide for your platform, from plain HTML to Next.js, Hugo, Webflow and more.
Form in your inbox in two minutes
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