FormMail help required~

[Monkeyace]

Im in desperate need of help, this script keeps throwing up a 500 error for me, and ive tried literally everything to get it working. Help would be much appreciated.

The script is FormMail by Matt Wright



http://www.paste.to/v/ral301ns <- the code

[FishMonger]

Matt's script is not written very well. It would be best to replace it with the FormMail script from the NMS project, which is a drop-in replacement for Matt's script.

Oops, I forgot to give you the link.
http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml

[RabidMango]

Im in desperate need of help, this script keeps throwing up a 500 error for me, and ive tried literally everything to get it working. Help would be much appreciated.

The script is FormMail by Matt Wright



http://www.paste.to/v/ral301ns <- the code

But what's "everything"?

- chmodding it properly

- checking the file is saved in the correct format (i.e. the linebreaks/returns haven't been made inappropriate by saving it on one o.s. and then using it on a different one after ftping it - eg mac to pc, or anything and linux... it's a possibility)

- being sure that anything you've added (specific fields) has been done correctly and you haven't accidentally removed a " or something


I can't think of much else - what else did you do to try and solve the problem?

Have you thought of trying to put it together yourself - sending mail from cgi is very easy - no one really needs a readymade script...

here are some meccano parts for you -


$sendmailpath="/usr/sbin/sendmail";

open (SENDMAIL, "| $sendmailpath -t");




below there are also bits for sending attachments, but i didn't include the previous stuff for building up to it since you don't wanna get too confused too early



print SENDMAIL "Subject: $subject\n";
print SENDMAIL "From: $from\n";
print SENDMAIL "To: $to\n";
#print SENDMAIL "Cc: $cc\n";
print SENDMAIL "Bcc: $bcc\n";
print SENDMAIL "Mime-Version: 1.0\n";
print SENDMAIL "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; ";
print SENDMAIL "boundary=\"$BOUNDARY\"\n";
print SENDMAIL "\n\n";
print SENDMAIL "--$BOUNDARY\n";
print SENDMAIL "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii\n";
print SENDMAIL "\n";
print SENDMAIL "$MSG\n$bmsg\n";
print SENDMAIL "--$BOUNDARY\n";
print SENDMAIL "Content-Type: $wotsit\n";
print SENDMAIL "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n";
print SENDMAIL "\n";
# print SENDMAIL `$GZIP "$file"`;
# BASE64 Encode it and include it in the message
# print SENDMAIL `$MMENCODE "$file"`;
print SENDMAIL "$encodata";
print SENDMAIL "\n--$BOUNDARY--";






close (SENDMAIL);

[RabidMango]

I solved your problem, though:

$ perl jobby
Array found where operator expected at jobby line 47, at end of line
syntax error at jobby line 47, near "name@domain"
Execution of jobby aborted due to compilation errors.



so let's have a peek...
@recipients = &fill_recipients(name@domain.com);

is where it is going wrong

you need to solve that - i have no idea what any of it is doing anyway

it's apparently some newfangled anti-spam system, very basic.

who knows what you should be putting in there - but maybe the @ without any \ has something to do with it, or the lack of "s, who knows

if you put name@domain.com in "s it does actually work...


try it.
but the backslash idea was no good. just me shooting rounds off in the dark.

anyway there you go, i have solved it for you - put quotemarks around that email address (although perhaps changing it to your email first would be wise)