nike_guy_man — Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:25:02 +0000

How about using an SMTP server?
What is the difference and how would I use that instead??

mairving — Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:04:58 +0000

chmod -777 will give everyone all priviledges.

I tried running it on my system. It didn't work. I will play around with it some today as time permits.

nike_guy_man — Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:30:00 +0000

It was installed when I installed RedHat 6.2
Should I try to chmod it?
What should I chmod it to?

Gyrbo — Wed, 11 Jul 2001 08:29:45 +0000

It should be set to executable. Maybe it isn't correctly installed.

nike_guy_man — Wed, 11 Jul 2001 03:10:06 +0000

Nope... doesn't fix it
Should the permissions for /usr/sbin/sendmail be changed??

mairving — Wed, 11 Jul 2001 01:57:48 +0000

Try using something like this:

$mailprog = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';

instead of

open (MAIL,"/usr/sbin/sendmail");

nike_guy_man — Tue, 10 Jul 2001 02:58:56 +0000

here we go:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
$mail = 1;
if ($mail) {
open (MAIL,"/usr/sbin/sendmail");
print MAIL "To: parrabal\@home.com";
print MAIL "From: parrabal\@home.com";
print MAIL "Subject: Hello";
print MAIL "hello";
close(MAIL);
print "<html><head><title>yes</title></head></html>";
print "Hello";
} else {
print "Nope";
}

'
i've also tried

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
$mail = 1;
if ($mail) {
open (MAIL,"|/usr/bin/sendmail");
print MAIL "To: parrabal\@home.com";
print MAIL "From: parrabal\@home.com";
print MAIL "Subject: Hello";
print MAIL " hey hey hello";
close(MAIL);
print "<html><head><title>yes</title></head></html>";
print "Hello";
} else {
print "Nope";
}

'
but neither works

mairving — Tue, 10 Jul 2001 02:52:05 +0000

Sorry, Nike_guy, I haven't been able to help you more. A new week old baby in the house makes it hard to type sometimes.

Is this a script that you wrote or one that you got off of the web?
If you want, you could email me the script or if it is not too long, post it here (using the code tag). I will try to look at it and test it to see if it is the script or your sendmail setup. A format error I would think would most likely be in the script.

nike_guy_man — Mon, 09 Jul 2001 03:49:28 +0000

Nope.
When I submit the form that uses sendmail, it takes a long time to send, and I get a mail message in linux saying data format error.
I'll try again...

mairving — Mon, 09 Jul 2001 03:08:01 +0000

If sendmail is setup properly, then I would check the path to sendmail in your script. In RedHat, the path is usually /usr/sbin/sendmail. In other Linux distros the path is often /usr/bin/sendmail.