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How to set up formmail.pl

Lorel

4:44 pm on Jun 7, 2011 (gmt 0)

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I have formmail set up on a main domain and trying to get it set up on a sub domain and it's not working and the host says it's a 3rd party program so they don't support it (the tech support guys tried to figure it out but act like they've never set up formmail before). I'm not a programmer although I understand some of the programming. If someone can help me with this it would be highly appreciated

Here is how I have the @recipients set up in formmail.pl

@recipients = &fill_recipients('maindomain.com','subdomain.com');

No other changes have been made to the formmail.pl

Here is the relevant lines on the HTML form:

<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="http://www.maindomain.com/cgi-bin/formmail/FormMail.pl">
<input type=hidden name="recipient" value="info@maindomain.com">
<input type=hidden name="return_link_url" value="http://www.subdomain.com/">
<img src='http://www.maindomain.com/cgi-bin/formmail/captcha.cgi' alt="">

The captcha letters show up on the HTML page so I know I've linked to it correctly.

Can anyone see a mistake?

janharders

4:51 pm on Jun 7, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Which formmail.pl are you using? There are several out there.
What happens when you submit the form? is there a 500 Server Error? Do you get an error message from the script? Does the script tell you everything is fine but no mail ever arrives?

Lorel

2:36 pm on Jun 8, 2011 (gmt 0)

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I'm using this one:

# FormMail Version 1.92 #
# Copyright 1995-2002 Matt Wright mattw@scriptarchive.com

The next to the last time I got an error saying add the sub domain to the recipients so I did that then got an error saying add it to the referrers (Bad Referrer 0- Access Denied). But I don't see anywhere to add it to the referrers and according to the instructions I should only need to add it to the recipients when the sub domain is on the same server.

janharders

6:19 pm on Jun 8, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Ouch. Matt's scripts are really out of date and contain potential security leaks.
You might want to switch to another script. Ask your favorite search engine for "nms formmail". That's a script that should be able to replace Matt's formmail without alot of hassle. It's better and safer.

Matt himself writes:

I would highly recommend downloading the nms versions if you wish to learn CGI programming. The code you find at Matt's Script Archive is not representative of how even I would code these days. My interests and activies have moved on, however, and I just have not found the time to update all of my scripts. One of the major reasons for this is that they work for many people. For this reason, I will continue to provide them to the public, but am also pleased to make you aware of well-coded alternatives.

Maybe that'll already solve your problem -- and even if not, you should probably still update to the nms version.