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Thread ID: 50800 2004-11-02 03:01:00 Does any one here know CGI/Perl? (ASAP) stu120404 (268) Press F1
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286960 2004-11-17 01:06:00 For now I have giving up on the above & I am now using Matt's Script Archive: FormMail . . . .

The web host I am trying to run this CGI script on is Maxnet

Now the problem I am having with the FormMail is that every time I try & submit the form (you can try it here: . refinanceline . co . nz/form_topup_test . htm," target="_blank">www . refinanceline . co . nz sorry Orcon users, Orcon DNS server have not updated so you will get a 404 error message)

I get this error message:

Error: Bad/No Recipient

There was no recipient or an invalid recipient specified in the data sent to FormMail . Please make sure you have filled in the recipient form field with an e-mail address that has been configured in @recipients . More information on filling in recipient form fields and variables can be found in the README file .
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FormMail V1 . 92 © 1995 - 2002 Matt Wright
A Free Product of Matt's Script Archive, Inc .


For @recipients in the cgi script I have:

# @recipients defines the e-mail addresses or domain names that e-mail can #
# be sent to . This must be filled in correctly to prevent SPAM and allow #
# valid addresses to receive e-mail . Read the documentation to find out how #
# this variable works!!! It is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT . #
@recipients = &fill_recipients(@referers);

Which is default .

In the form I have:

<input name="recipients" type=hidden id="recipients" value="my-e-mailaddress@isp . net . nz">

& I have tried:

<input name="recipient" type=hidden id="recipient" value="my-e-mailaddress@isp . net . nz">

Any Ideas what might be wrong?

Note: I have e-mail maxnet, but I don’t know if I will get a reply today :( 		stu120404 (268)
286961 2004-11-17 01:29:00 By the way the CGI script works Fine on the webdrive servers you can see here:

webstarters.co.nz

It is only in till I move it to Maxnet that I have problems GRRRRR! X-( 		stu120404 (268)
286962 2004-11-17 01:37:00 The two scripts are identical? Rob99 (151)
286963 2004-11-17 01:48:00 > The two scripts are identical?

Yep :), all I have change is the Perl/sendmail path to suite the server & the @referers = ('www.refinanceline.co.nz','210.55.230.196'); to suite the domain name. 		stu120404 (268)
286964 2004-11-17 02:32:00 Have you tried the configuration helper for formmail? "formmail . html" to google gets a link to that . There seems to be a fair bit of documentation . too .

The link headed "Below is the result of your feedback form" sugests there might be security problems with this script . ;-) 		Graham L (2)
286965 2004-11-17 14:16:00 Hey stu,

The best way around this is to manually setup recipient, and leave the hidden input line still in the form.

I would suggest using

@recipients = ('^my-e-mailaddress\@isp\.net\.nz');

The referers part of the script can sometimes cause problems, I would assume security would be a big thing, but sometimes I found the best method was to eliminate referer being checked at times.

I haven't used Matt's script since the time I converted it over to PHP so I'm wondering whether it's still limited in configuration or not, I found I had to alter too much of the script to make it usuable, but it's a good script and most hosting support this script, I would have checked with the webhost whether they had a script available for use.


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