dragon007 — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 05:34:05 +0000

thanks Fataqui for your help

i sent you a pm with my e-mail address.

Fataqui — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:24:22 +0000

I rewrote the whole thing, I based it on your form, I mean I put your contact form page in the script......

What it does............

sends an email to the dept selected in the drop down box.....

logs a copy of the contact to a log file

performs error checking......

can have unlimited dept, ie, diffent email address for each one

Uses safe sockets relay & SMTP AUTH, if needed

If you want Bcc: to be sent to the owner or Admin, just tell me and it will take just a minute to add that....

Try the demo, if it's OK tell me and I will zip it up and send it to you...........

YOUR CONTACT FORM...............

http://www.ya-right.com/cgi-bin/contact.pl

WHAT THE LOG FILE LOOKS LIKE

http://www.ya-right.com/cgi-bin/log.txt

WHAT THE EMAIL SENT LOOKS LIKE.........

GO HERE........... AFTER SUBMITTING THE DEMO FORM

http://www.ya-right.com/

USER = sambar
PASS = test

Fataqui — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:52:58 +0000

Hi Peter

I don't like having to disagree, with people, but in this case, I agree with you to a point, and that point is that, if you are talking about (everytime, every instance) then Perl is not as fast as (ASP everytime, or in every instance).
But Perl is much faster, when it comes to doing many things, and handles memory in a far better way than the ASP engine can. Also Perl has a better code base for forking multi process based operations, and returning memory back to the system, where as ASP never returns the memory it uses!

Like I said there are times I use ASP, because Perl or PHP, JSP, can not do what ASP, or Cscript/VBscript can do. But in this case (simple form using sockets) Perl is better for the task at hand!

Peter J. Boettcher — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 14:26:58 +0000

Fataqui,

On a windows system Perl will NEVER run faster than native ASP. As for sending mail, CDONTS performance is fine, as for error handling you can make that as good as you want, and CDO for Windows 2000 (IIS5) is even better.

Wil — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:36:17 +0000

But Perl doesn't 'handle' mail at all. That's all Perl does is open a pipe to inject your mail to the mail deamon. That's of course, if you're not using a direct connection to a SMTP server, which will then take you to use sockets - just as the script in the OP does.

Fataqui — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:23:54 +0000

Give me a few hours and I will rewrite the whole thing for you...

What I will do is include, your form template in the script, so that everything is managed properly and error checking will be displayed to the user right back on the form.........

dragon007 — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 05:33:27 +0000

thanks Fataqui for ur explanation

i would be grateful if u can help me find out what i should do, so that the form works proprely. as i mentioned above, for the end user there are no errors, the form works fine, but i don't receive the messages to my email.

thanks

Fataqui — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 01:56:23 +0000

First off.........

Quote: did you properly chmod the script? Ah, if I had a nickel for every time I forgot to do that...

You can not CHMOD on NT........

Secondly

ASP makes the worse mail handling, Perl is better for mail handling, even hotmail uses Perl's core engine to handle all of it's mail handling functions. Each language has it good points, and Perl makes managing mail easy, fast, and has better error handling than ASP would ever hope to have!

Another good point in using Perl over ASP, is that your code will run on any system, and creating a simple mail (sub) can be included in many different scripts without the need to recode the same function over and over again!

Listen I do use ASP, but only when I need to run a COM object based system/service, other wise I stick to using PHP, or Perl, I do this because Perl and PHP, will allow you to be more creative in your future developments everytime!

dragon007 — Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:18:11 +0000

thanks Peter J. Boettcher for the link

Peter J. Boettcher — Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:54:18 +0000

Here is a link to a good example of CDONTS/ASP: http://www.asp101.com/samples/viewasp.asp?file=email%2Easp