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Subject: No mail received

Posted: 03/22/2003 at 7:39:41 pm

By: Bill Schendel

After many hours and much frustration in dealing with my Windows 2000 server, I am finally at the point where I don't receive any more error messages. Now when I submit the form I get the correct success message, but I still don't receive the email. I've changed the $cfg email onform variable to 2 and the sendto address is correct. I also varified with my host server that the mailprog and path to perl is correct. Is there anything more that I can check? Thanks.

Subject: Re: No mail received

Posted: 03/26/2003 at 7:39:55 pm

By: Seth Knorr

IT is probably the path to sendmail that is the problem. Your host may have this disabled. In general Windows servers seem to be problematic. You may want to try to use a Linux server instead. Seth

Subject: Re: No mail received

Posted: 03/27/2003 at 7:40:04 pm

By: Bill Schendel

Thanks for the advice, but I've solved my problem. Someone from my host understood what was happening and explained that .pl or .cgi scripts do not always work correctly on Windows 2000 servers. It was recommended that I use an .asp script such as formmail.asp. I tried it and it worked. I hope this helps others who are not on UNIX servers.