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Thanks. The TCH forum always seems to come through with the answer.

I recently used Ultimate Form Mail, a great script, and created an HTML email with the webmaster template. This template enables your form to sent a nicely formatted email to the recipent of the form. UFM did all I expected, and I have just the response format from the form I want as long as I use Outlook or Entourage (Mac) to retrieve my email. When I use Horde, I get all of the information, but it is in plain text. All the HTML work is gone. Is is possible to set Horde to display HTML email?

I have a script that processes a form and requires access to sendmail This is the path I am using: $mailprog = '/bin/sendmail -oi -t'; The script fails with the following message: An error has occurred in the program close sendmail pipe failed, mailprog=[/bin/sendmail -oi -t] at (eval 8) line 108. What should I use for a path? Thanks

Hello, I have a script with the following name working on one of my sites: NMS FormMail Version 3.11c1 Copyright 2003 London Perl Mongers It does not have the recipient's email address in the html code, but only in the script itself. Does anyone have any experience with this particular script? I do have the Pro Version of Ultimate Form Mail and am learning to make PHP and MySQL work with it. I am planning to convert, but want to be more well versed with the data base parts first. If the NMS script is a security risk, I will convert to Ultimate now. Any suggestions? Thanks

I have followed the discussion about forwarding email to AOL and have looked through the sites that I host to locate and remove the forwarded addresses. One of my clients really wants to continue receiving mail from his web site at his AOL address. Would setting up the mailto directly on his contact page to go to his AOL account attract attention from AOL to the server at TCH where I have my sites hosted? If not, I will suggest to this client that he can still have mail go to his AOL account if he is willing to have the AOL address in the mailto. Thanks for any input. PS I don't really like the solution I just suggested as it means my client loses the benefit of having an email address of client@hisowndomain.com I will try to change his mind about the AOL address

Hello, I created and propagated a web site that is working just fine. Then, I added a sub-domain which is also working just fine. The address is: http://commtwp.improvelearning.com Some of the teachers in the Commercial Township Schools (hence the clever name for the subdomain) want to publish directly to the web with FrontPage. I use DreamWeaverMX, but the school uses FrontPage, so I am attempting to accommodate the teachers. I went to my cPanel and installed FrontPage Extensions on the main site, improvelearning.com, per the directions which state you install on the main site before installing on the sub-domain. Then, I installed on the sub-domain. All the messages at cPanel indicate that the extensions are installed. When I use the Publish option on FrontPage, I get a message which indicates that one of several errors has occurred, possibly the FrontPage extensions are not installed is one of the diagnostic guesses from FrontPage. Does one need to restart Apache after installing the FrontPage extensions? If so, how does one restart the server? Or, is there some other step that I need to complete? Thanks.

Thanks for the follow up.

Sorry about this posting. After I posted, I went back to try again. On the FTP Account Maintenance page, I noticed the following: When logging into the ftp server please use the username exactly as it appears below. If the username includes a "@", make sure to include it when logging in. Example: Use "john@doe.org" and not "john". So, the mistake was mine. I didn't read carefully enough. The user name needs to be commtwp@improvelearning.com rather than just commtwp which is what I was using out of habit. Maybe this will help someone else. Thanks

Hello, I created a sub-domain on an account. commtwp.improvelearning.com I can ftp to improvelearning.com, find the commtwp folder and upload files. My browser can go to commtwp.improvelearning.com and display the single page I have there. I set up my ftp program, fetch on my Mac, to the following: Host: commtwp.improvelearning.com User id: commtwp Password: password established in cPanel for user commtwp I tried Directory: www and I tried leaving Directory blank. Neither one let me in. I get the message, Error on Password, user authentication failed, sorry. I want to give access to the commtwp.improvelearning.com subdomain without giving access to the improvelearning.com domain. Can I do this? Maybe I need to do something else in setting up the subdomain. I created the subdomain in cPanel and waited for it to propagate. Then, I created the ftp account for commtwp in cPanel. Thanks

Thanks. I will contact the client and get the IP address and host name.

My policy has always been to ignore anonymous complaints. I established this policy in the early 1970's, long before email and electronic forums. I would just delete the message and move on.

One of the clients we host has decided that they want to do their own email. Is there a way for us to continue to host the web pages on our TCH server while allowing them to have a separate email server which handles all email addressed to employee@theirURL.com ? I tried searching through the posts about MX records, but didn't really find any info I could use.

Thank You, your rating of TotalChoice posted on 2/1/2004 9:50:00 PM has been validated and now is part of this hosts rating log The above is the response I received after validating my posting of the rating.

Tracy, I recall the boxes, but I don't think that I checked any of them. I think there were two choices below the maintenance items, one to do the maintenance and one to skip it. It didn't occur to me that the boxes needed to be checked when I was clicking to do the maintenance. I will be more careful next month. Thanks

This morning, Feb 1, Horde presented me with a new screen offering to do some monthly maintenance which included renaming my Sent-mail folder as Sent-mail Jan 2004 (or something close to that). I clicked the button that would do the maintenance. Now I still have a Sent-mail folder, but no Sent-mail Jan 2004 folder. The Horde help doesn't offer any info about accessing the archived folders. I went back and looked in the Sent-mail folder. It still has all of my January sent mail in it. I guess no new folder was created. This would be a nice feature. Hope it works some day soon.

Thanks for the information about the posters. I work with tech coordinators in about a dozen schools and I sent the link to all of them.

Not sure if this will help, but I copied and pasted your code into two different files and posted them both here: http://wigoweb.com/test/ You can try them. They both display the following text: Here is the clock -- Neither one actually displays any of the php you have listed. However, that may be due to my just getting started with php and probably not having it all set up correctly yet. But, I did not get a blank white page for either of the two files you provided.

This is a really comprehensive list of symptoms and remedies. It should be very helpful to anyone who reads it. I had some of these problems and had them solved through info I received back from help tickets. Good to see this list made available to everyone.

Quit last night at midnight. Reply came at 12:05 am, less than 10 minutes after I submitted support request.

My experience has been very different. Any support request I have submitted has been promptly dealt with and resolved completely. Support tickets are the way to go, not emails.

Sent message at 11:55 pm Autoresponder replied at 11:55 pm

Have read the posts about FormMail and its security risks. As a result, I implemented Ultimate Form Mail which is a very versatile script. However, the external database features of Ultimate Form Mail are still under development. Until UFM is completed in the Pro Version, which I am prepared to purchase, what is the position of TCH on using BFormMail? This is an enhanced version of Matt Wright's FormMail which is supposed to have corrected some of the security issues of FormMail. Here is a link with information: http://www.infosheet.com/iScripts.html Here is a quote from the above link: BFormMail version 2.0 is now available for download! After many requests for the security update of Matt Wright's FormMail version 1.9, the features have been encorporated into BFormMail. If you are using FormMail 1.6 or any version of BFormMail prior to 2.0, please upgrade immediately! These features help prevent using the script as a mail relay for spam. Apart from these security features, there is no additional functionality. Is it okay to install bformmail until UFM is ready? I don't want to violate the policy stated in the following quote from a January 23 posting: Bill Kish Head Guru Group: Admins Posts: 3259 Member No.: 1 Joined: 15-October 02 The older versions of Formail is very insecure. Anything 1.9 or back is not allowed on TCH servers. The admins review the reports daily and will remove any insecure version found. I am not sure if it is well known, but I have a zero tolerance level for SPAM. I do mean ZERO. So if you do sneak a unsecure version of a formmail script on our servers and its exploited, your account is terminated. I make it policy, we dont warn spammers, we dont suspend spammers, the accounts get removed from the servers period.

I moved several sites from another host to TCH and will be moving more. When I set up the new site with WHM, I used the info given in the first messages I received from TCH after signing up to FTP directly to my new site on the TCH servers. Then, I just uploaded the files. I did edit each home page by putting in about 20 blank lines and then adding the text, "On New Server." Then, after I changed the DNS info with the registrar, I just keep checking the site. I would go to the site, look at the home page and scroll down to see if the new message was there. Very likely, no one else will see the message, as few people will scroll down a totally blank set of 20 lines. One site propagated in about 12 hours. That only happened once, though. Usually, I waited the full 36 hours before I saw the new site. I also created all the new email accounts for the new sites and had them ready to receive mail before changing the dns information. I left the old sites on the old server at the other host ( I am still paying for that server, too. ), so that I can go back and pick up any last email messages that my clients might have missed in the change over. So far, everything has worked very smoothly and no one has complained of missing any contacts. I switched to the UltraFormMail script with my contact forms which worked very well except that this script doesn't yet have the capability to write to an external file for a database. I really do need that feature and SureFire Web Design is working on it right now.

Surprised I didn't see this sooner. I have been in the Apple/Mac camp for a long time, although today the differences don't seem as obvious as they once did. I currently have a dual processor G4 tower and a Titanium PowerBook G4. I use an external firewire hard drive to keep the two machines syncronized as the PowerBook travels wherever I go and I work on the road a lot. I also have a Sony Vaio with XP. Can't ignore Windows altogether, but can't get excited about Windows either, not even XP. My first PC was an IBM portable that weighed about 38 pounds and had a five inch amber screen with two floppy drives and 64 KB of RAM. This was about 1982. I worked on the DOS command line for a long time after Windows came out before I finally got Win 3.2 on a desktop machine. I have a keychain, USB 256MB device that I use to sync files between all of my systems with USB ports, the G4 tower, the G4 notebook and the Sony notebook can all read the files from this little USB drive. Makes moving files from Mac to Windows and back again a snap. My first computer was an Apple II Plus in 1979 or 1980. My first Mac was 128K Classic in 1984. I lugged that mac in its own backpack through 14 different states while doing research on some books which I created in Ready, Set, Go!, a terrific desk top publishing program that preceded PageMaker. Did all the artwork for the books in Aldus Freehand. Now, my emphasis is on web based documents rather than desk top publishing, but I still get the occasional contract to do a book. Working on my Macs, I have moved from PageMaker to Word for most all the desk top publishing I do. Almost everyone has Word; lots of people don't have PageMaker or Quark. With my FTP, Telnet and web editing software on the Mac, I haven't found anything that I needed to use my Windows machine for. The Mac can do it all as far as my needs are concerned.

You might try http://www.animations.com/ A one month subscription is only $7.95 and you might find a lot of other animations as well to make it well worth the cost.