I'm testing out an .cgi example to send an email, however I'm not sure where the sendmail program lives on my Windows o/s. The example states that I need to figure out where sendmail program lives on my system, how do I this?
Please see part of the code below: -
$mailprog = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';
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open (MAIL, "|$mailprog -t)
I know using sendmail.pm / use sendmail module is easier however I would like to try this example out without using modules.
Thank you
17  2927 
normally there is no sendmail application installed on windows. You can see by the path that it is not windows:
/usr/sbin/sendmail
You could create a /usr/sbin/ directory on your windows computer but you would also need sendmail.exe installed. There might be a sendmail.exe for windows for all I know but you will have to search for it.
normally there is no sendmail application installed on windows. You can see by the path that it is not windows:
/usr/sbin/sendmail
You could create a /usr/sbin/ directory on your windows computer but you would also need sendmail.exe installed. There might be a sendmail.exe for windows for all I know but you will have to search for it.
There is definitely more than one option depending on which software you want to install.
Regards,
Jeff
Guy's,
most of the perl books on the market I've seen and also the one I'm using tend to assume user is using Unix/Linix. So I've deceided to install Linix.
Would you guy's recommend me installing RED HAT Linix? Can I do Unix / shell programming using RED HAT Linix?
Or would you recommend some other Unix / Linix O/S?
Cheers
Guy's,
most of the perl books on the market I've seen and also the one I'm using tend to assume user is using Unix/Linix. So I've deceided to install Linix.
Would you guy's recommend me installing RED HAT Linix? Can I do Unix / shell programming using RED HAT Linix?
Or would you recommend some other Unix / Linix O/S?
Cheers
Which distribution that you use is more of a personal preference, but it sounds like you are just beginning (prepare for the vertical learning curve if you don't know Unix)
(BTW, its spelled "Linux").
Instead of Red Hat, which you have to pay to get updates from, I would choose Fedora, which is the Red Hat spin-off. Yes, you can do shell programming with ANY unix based environment.
Also, just because a book assumes Linux or Unix, does not mean that you cannot learn to code on Windows. The Perl code, with the exception of the shebang line, is pretty much the same.
Regards,
Jeff
Regarding the sendmail.exe which I've downloaded and placed in the following location: c:/perl/bin/sendmail.exe- (for the sendmail conf file)
How do I find my SMTP server name? Currently i've set it to: smtp.mysite.com
Also what is my default domain? Currently I've set this to: localhost
My mail.cgi has the following line:
[CODE:perl]$mailprog = '/perl/bin/sendmail.exe';[/code]
also tried 'c:/perl/bin/sendmail.exe'
My shebang line in mail.cgi:
[CODE:perl]#!c:/perl/bin/perl.exe[/code]
I'm getting no error when sending the mail via sendmail, however i'm not receiving the mail, hence just wanted to confirm the above info.
Cheers
p.s. if all above info seems correct, can I get someone to check my mail.cgi file?
personally when I want to test a perl script using sendmail I just use an online account that is setup already. Pretty much everything else I can code and test on windows and my local apache installation.
Can someone kindly check my sending email script (mail.cgi and mail.html), this time I am running this on Linux platform. Error message I get: Internal Server Error.
My scripts below (mail.cgi): - #!/usr/bin/perl
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print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
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print "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2
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Final//EN\">\n<HEAD>\n<TITLE>email program</TITLE>\n</HEAD>\n<BODY>\n";
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print "Perl CGI EMAIL testing script\n<br><br><br>";
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read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
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@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
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foreach $pair (@pairs) {
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($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
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$value =~ tr/+/ /;
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$value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
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$FORM{$name} = $value;
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}
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$mailprog = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';
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$recipient = 'patelxx@hotmail.com';
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open (MAIL, "|$mailprog -t") or &dienice("Can't access $mailprog!\n");
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print MAIL "To: $recipient\n";
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print MAIL "Reply-to: $FORM{'email'} ($FORM{'name'})\n";
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print MAIL "Subject: Form Data\n\n";
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foreach $key (keys(%FORM)) {
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print MAIL "$key = $FORM{$key}\n";
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}
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close(MAIL);
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print <<EndHTML;
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<h2>Thank You</h2>
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Thank you for writing. Your mail has been delivered.<p>
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Return to our <a href="index.html">home page</a>.
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</body></html>
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EndHTML
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sub dienice {
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($errmsg) = @_;
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print "<h2>Error</h2>\n";
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print "$errmsg<p>\n";
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print "</body></html>\n";
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exit;
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}
My HTML script below (mail.html):
[HTML]<html><head><title>Mail.html</title></head>
<body>
<form action="/cgi-bin/mail.cgi" method="POST">
<pre>
Your Name: <input type="text" name="name">
Email Address: <input type="text" name="email">
Age: <input type="text" name="age">
Favorite Color: <input type="text" name="favorite_color">
</pre>
<input type="submit" value="Send">
<input type="reset" value="Clear Form">
</form>
</body>
</html>[/HTML]
Error Log:
[error] [client 81.77.86.109] File does not exist: /home/patelxx/public_html/500.shtml, referer: http://www.patelxx.com/mail.html
Change: - print "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2
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Final//EN\">\n<HEAD>\n<TITLE>email program</TITLE>\n</HEAD>\n<BODY>\n";
To: - print qq~<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2
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Final//EN\">\n<HEAD>\n<TITLE>email program</TITLE>\n</HEAD>\n<BODY>\n ~;
Then add this line to your script after the first line to get the error's to print to the browser. This is a great tool for debugging. Then we can go from there. - use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser/;
This is the error I get after the change you told me to make, it the same error(i.e. I have also changed the permissions tto 755 still not luck):
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@patelxx.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache/2.2.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.6 OpenSSL/0.9.7a mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at www.patelxx.com Port 80
When you uploaded it to your server, did you do it in ascii mode? Did you set the permissions to 755?
Also add these lines to you code. - use strict;
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use warnings;
The file being uploaded is in ASCII mode and also the chmod is set to 755. I still get the error as stated previously.
Could you kindly test or check the script (mail.cgi and mail.html). Cheers.
The file being uploaded is in ASCII mode and also the chmod is set to 755. I still get the error as stated previously.
I missed that part of your post. Well if you use the strict pragma then the errors give are because you did have not declared your $variables. If you don't use the strict prarams then the script for me did not cause any errors.
I recommend that you use the strict pragma and declare the varables.
if you can just look at the following link on my site:
http://www.patelxx.com/mail.html
cheers
the shebang line might be wrong. Looking at the html code will not help determine why you get a 500 ISE.
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