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Article #152Re: form maiol problem
From: Tony Finch
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 00:00
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Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> wrote: >Dr A.C. Fletcher wrote: > >> Answers by Email most appreciated, alos if this the wrong newsgroup >> please redirect me > >Post here, read here. Unless you set Followup-To: poster, which I may >honour. The correct newsgroup for this sort of question is demon.ip.www. I have redirected followups. >> <Form method=POST >> action="http://www.bolivia.co.uk/cgi-bin/form-mail.pl" > >> form-mail.pl >> >> # This should match the mail program on your system. >> $mailprog = 'http://cgi-bin/www.bolivia.co.uk/form-mail.pl'; > >That isn't a mail program. It will probably need to be something like > >$mailprog= '/usr/sbin/sendmail'; > >if it's a Unix box, it may also be /usr/lib/sendmail on some systems. >Find one that works. It is /usr/lib/sendamail on the commercial web servers. Note also that you probably want to set your recipient address to webmaster@bolivia.co.uk rather than webmaster@www.bolivia.co.uk, otherwise we will get lots of bounces. Tony. -- F.A.N.Finch dot@dotat.at fanf@demon.net We sow the seed; nature grows the seed; we eat the seed. 1829
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