extreme newb formmail question

[mezzi5]

Hi,

I have put together a perl script using FormsToGo. Everything seems fine and the form returns a successful submission, but i am not receiving the email.

I can email the .pl and .html file if anyone has time to look at it.

Regards

 

[max1x]

what r u trying to do? E-mail every thing that was submitted? If so, u should search CPAN for a mail module or if u are on a *nix platform mailx || sendmail..

 

[Zhris]

My favourite module for sending mail is MIME::Lite, although there are others available such as Mail::Send and Mail::Mailer.

E.g. of MIME::Lite (

http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/MIME-Lite-3.023/lib/MIME/Lite.pm)

my ($email);
use MIME::Lite;
$email = MIME::Lite->new(From    => $from,
To      => $to,
Subject => $subject,
Type    => 'multipart/mixed');
$email->attach(Type    => 'TEXT',
Data    => $message);

Or alternatively, use sendmail (

http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=364).

Chris

 

[mezzi5]

yes max1x, i have about 9 fields that people fill in for an online estimate and a single submit button to send to my email address. I cant work out what is wrong because everything seems correct and i dont have the technical knowledge to see what is wrong. I'm having a look at yours and Zhris's alternatives.

I've been given the:

/usr/sbin/sendmail and
/usr/bin/perl paths from my webspace provider.

Also the whole webspace is apparantly CGI active so no need to a cgi-bin directory.

 

[mezzi5]

Also i'm using all relative paths (i'm not sure what the absolute paths are)

eg) </tr>
</table>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="mail.pl">
<table width="541" border="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>