PGP Form Mail provides a secure method of emailing the data collected in an HTML form. Its primary purpose is to allow the results of an online order form, including credit card information, to be sent encrypted to the recipient. This allows the order information to be decrypted and processed offline using the browser-based terminal feature of a gateway payment processing service (like Authorize.Net or Signio); a locally installed terminal processing application (like PC or Mac Authorize or IC Verify); or other means of submitting the credit card transaction to your merchant (acquiring) bank.

PGP Form Mail is implemented using the Perl script pgp5formmail.pl, a modification of Matt Wright's FormMail script. PGP Form Mail will encrypt all of the submitted form's contents and send the contents in an email to the address specified by the 'recipient' field. The pgp5formmail.pl script is compatible only with PGP version 5, hence the reason for the inclusion of the PGP version in the script's name.

Important: To use PGP Form Mail you must understand and implement PGP on your local client PC or workstation so that the resulting email received can be decrypted. In addition, you must have PGP5 installed on your Web server and have created a public key for PGP Form Mail to use to encrypt the form's contents.