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Re: form maiol problem

#152
From: Tony Finch
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.
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From: Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>
Subject: Re: form maiol problem
Date: 1998/09/03
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