Formmail.pl

[jayson]

I am trying to get a form to work, but it keeps talking about a formmail.pl on my site, do I have to create that file? Or is there a easier way to create a form for like feed back and support.

[TCH-Bruce]

formmail.pl is a forms processing script. You need a script named that or some other forms processing script to collect the info and send it on.

[jayson]

Ok, after 3 hours I finally got it to work, but what I want to know, is when I use a script, and send it, I get it in my email with a from line like this:

 

"nobody@server112.tchmachines.com"

 

have can I get it to say:

 

me@jaysarahandy.com

 

Thanks

[TCH-Bruce]

The script needs to send mail sort of like this for that to happen.

 

>$mailprog = '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t';
$recip = "you\@yourTCHdomain";

open (MAIL, "|$mailprog -f$recip");
print MAIL "Reply-to: you\@yourTCHdomain\n";
print MAIL "From: you\@yourTCHdomain\n";
print MAIL "To: $E_Mail\n";
print MAIL "Subject: Your message has been received\n";
print MAIL "\n\n";
print MAIL "Thank you ".$First_Name." for using our on-line message form.\n";
print MAIL "\n";
print MAIL "We will respond to your query as quickly as possible.\n";
print MAIL "\n";
print MAIL "You submitted the following:\n";
print MAIL "\n";
print MAIL "Name:		  ".$First_Name." ".$Last_Name."\n";
print MAIL "E-mail:		".$E_mail."\n";
print MAIL "------------------------------------\n";
print MAIL "Comments:	  ".$Comments."\n";
print MAIL "------------------------------------\n";
print MAIL "\n";
print MAIL "If you require a response you should receive one within 48 hours, if not please submit \n";
print MAIL "this information again by replying to this message.\n";
print MAIL "\n";
print MAIL "Thank you,\n";
print MAIL "\n";
print MAIL "\n\n";
close (MAIL);

[jayson]

thanks for the reply, but I am confused as to what I do with it, where do I put a file like that, sorry if I am sounding like a noob, but I look thought the web and it is so overwhelming that I have a hard time decivering it all.

 

Thanks

[TCH-Bruce]

The script I posted is written in Perl. It usually goes in the cgi-bin folder and is called with

 

 

in your HTML page.

 

Maybe NateMail would help you.

 

http://www.mindpalette.com/formprocessing/index.php

[jayson]

Cool, thanks, does tyhis replace the formmail.pl? If so I like this a whole lot better.

 

Thanks for your help Bruce!!

[TCH-Bruce]

Well it could but I don't know if it will. This is part of a script that I use on my company's website. The full script does a lot more than send a message to the person that filled out the form which is what this snippet does. I only posted this part to show how to create the headers so the server does not send mail as serverXX.tchmachines.com

 

The -f$recip on the $mailprog line authenticates $recip as the sender of the message. The Reply-To and From lines set up the message for the email client.