formail question

Hi,

is your sendmail path correct?

If you're on an NT server why don't you just use CDONTS? Using Perl on NT server isn't as efficient as using native ASP.

Can't tell unless you post the source code for the script.

Didn't know formail could work on NT servers. Did this thro up an error message?

BTW; I love your site! Did you design this yourself? Well stylish!!

Quote: is your sendmail path correct?

yes i think so, it's my host who provided me the path

Quote: If you're on an NT server why don't you just use CDONTS?

i would be grateful if u can advice me where i can find it. thanks.

Quote: Can't tell unless you post the source code for the script.

you can find the script here

Quote: BTW; I love your site! Did you design this yourself? Well stylish!!

yes, i did! thank you fo the compliment!

did you properly chmod the script? Ah, if I had a nickel for everytime I forgot to do that...

no actually i didn't!
u see the script get executed, just the mail is not delivered!
and since it's my first script to upload, i don't know what to do!

Here is a link to a good example of CDONTS/ASP: http://www.asp101.com/samples/viewasp.asp?file=email%2Easp

thanks Peter J. Boettcher for the link

Hi

First off.........

Quote: did you properly chmod the script? Ah, if I had a nickel for every time I forgot to do that...

You can not CHMOD on NT........

Secondly

ASP makes the worse mail handling, Perl is better for mail handling, even hotmail uses Perl's core engine to handle all of it's mail handling functions. Each language has it good points, and Perl makes managing mail easy, fast, and has better error handling than ASP would ever hope to have!

Another good point in using Perl over ASP, is that your code will run on any system, and creating a simple mail (sub) can be included in many different scripts without the need to recode the same function over and over again!

Listen I do use ASP, but only when I need to run a COM object based system/service, other wise I stick to using PHP, or Perl, I do this because Perl and PHP, will allow you to be more creative in your future developments everytime!

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thanks Fataqui for ur explanation

i would be grateful if u can help me find out what i should do, so that the form works proprely. as i mentioned above, for the end user there are no errors, the form works fine, but i don't receive the messages to my email.

thanks

Hi

Give me a few hours and I will rewrite the whole thing for you...

What I will do is include, your form template in the script, so that everything is managed properly and error checking will be displayed to the user right back on the form.........

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But Perl doesn't 'handle' mail at all. That's all Perl does is open a pipe to inject your mail to the mail deamon. That's of course, if you're not using a direct connection to a SMTP server, which will then take you to use sockets - just as the script in the OP does.

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Fataqui,

On a windows system Perl will NEVER run faster than native ASP. As for sending mail, CDONTS performance is fine, as for error handling you can make that as good as you want, and CDO for Windows 2000 (IIS5) is even better.

Hi Peter

I don't like having to disagree, with people, but in this case, I agree with you to a point, and that point is that, if you are talking about (everytime, every instance) then Perl is not as fast as (ASP everytime, or in every instance).
But Perl is much faster, when it comes to doing many things, and handles memory in a far better way than the ASP engine can. Also Perl has a better code base for forking multi process based operations, and returning memory back to the system, where as ASP never returns the memory it uses!

Like I said there are times I use ASP, because Perl or PHP, JSP, can not do what ASP, or Cscript/VBscript can do. But in this case (simple form using sockets) Perl is better for the task at hand!

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Hi

I rewrote the whole thing, I based it on your form, I mean I put your contact form page in the script......

What it does............

sends an email to the dept selected in the drop down box.....

logs a copy of the contact to a log file

performs error checking......

can have unlimited dept, ie, diffent email address for each one

Uses safe sockets relay & SMTP AUTH, if needed

If you want Bcc: to be sent to the owner or Admin, just tell me and it will take just a minute to add that....

Try the demo, if it's OK tell me and I will zip it up and send it to you...........

YOUR CONTACT FORM...............

http://www.ya-right.com/cgi-bin/contact.pl

WHAT THE LOG FILE LOOKS LIKE

http://www.ya-right.com/cgi-bin/log.txt

WHAT THE EMAIL SENT LOOKS LIKE.........

GO HERE........... AFTER SUBMITTING THE DEMO FORM

http://www.ya-right.com/

LOGIN

USER = sambar
PASS = test

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thanks Fataqui for your help

i sent you a pm with my e-mail address.