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The Contact Form is distinct from the webforms and registration form found on this site. Built using the Contact module, it is used purely for communication as opposed to user registration or gathering subscription information. 

It also allows a personal contact form to be activated for each user account. Persons with User Administration rights may use these forms to send messages to users' registered email addresses.

Modifying the Contact Form

You can modify the contact form by the following steps:

1. Navigate to Administer > Site Building > Contact Form
2. You'll see a panel where you can
   • define additional categories
   • customise each contact form
3. For now, we shall edit the generic contact - click on the edit link
   • Modify the recipients and/or
   • Change the auto-reply message
4. Save your changes.

Updating the Contact Information

If you would like to update the address and contact information appearing above the contact form, you won't be able to do this from the Contact Form administration pages. This information is contained in a block. To make edits to this block:

1. Go to Administer > Site Building > Blocks
2. Scroll to the Content Top region and locate the block called Contact Information
3. Click Configure
4. Edit the information
5. Once you're done done, don't forget to click Save block.

CAPTCHA Verification

The Contact Form includes additonal fields that require the user to answer a simple math question. This measure, courtesy of the CAPTCHA module helps verify whether the form is being filled out by an actual person or a spam robot.

Aside from answering a math question, other types of verification are available. You can also determine when the verifications will appear. To access these options:

1. Go to Administer > User Management > CAPTCHA
2. On the Challenge Type Per Form panel, you can activate three types of challenges per form
   • Math
   • Image
   • Text
3. You can also set the Persistence settings and decide whether incorrect responses will be logged.