dragon007 — Thu, 14 Feb 2002 09:02:36 +0000

yes i know, but they are offering me free hosting! so i guess i have to deal with it!

doublehelix — Thu, 14 Feb 2002 03:10:16 +0000

What!?!?! That's ridiculous. You're not asking for help in configuring a file, you're asking them where their email program is located. I would be off that server in a heartbeat if that were the type of service they provide.

dragon007 — Wed, 13 Feb 2002 22:02:29 +0000

yes, i thought about it aswell, but when i contacted my host again this is what they replied:

Quote:
We offer no support on configuring scripts. You seem to have a script trying to
use a UNIX method of sending mail. Post a question on the forum and maybe
someone will answer.

SUPPORT

so i have to figure it out my self!

thanks anyway for your post

doublehelix — Wed, 13 Feb 2002 21:04:31 +0000

$mailserver = "/usr/sbin/sendmail";

Your problem is that your hosting company gave you a URL rather than a path to the file on their server. If you look at the above line closely you'll notice they are assigning $mailserver a path, starting at the HD root, to the Unix sendmail program. A URL will not work.

Contact your hosting comapny again and explain to them you need the path to the file on their HD -- not a URL -- to their email program.

dragon007 — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:00:09 +0000

nope, it didn't work!

dragon007 — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:59:41 +0000

thanks Peter J. Boettcher,

i'll give it a try and hope it's gona work!

Peter J. Boettcher — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:37:47 +0000

Thanks Dragon!

I did some more investigating into using Perl and CDONTS and found this example, give it a try:

my $objMail=Win32::OLE->new('CDONTS.NewMail');
   $objMail->{From} = 'test@test.com';
   $objMail->{To} = 'test@test.com';
   $objMail->{Subject} = 'test';
   $objMail->{Body} = 'this is a test';
   $objMail->{Importance} = 2;
   $objMail->Send();
   $objMail = undef;
   undef ($objMail);

dragon007 — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:30:05 +0000

yes i tried, but it didn't work.

thanks Peter J. Boettcher for your post. by the way you have a very nice looking personal website, i like it!

Peter J. Boettcher — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:11:15 +0000

Did you try replacing your existing line:

$mailserver = "/usr/sbin/sendmail";

with

$SMTP_SERVER = "smtp.yourdomain.com";

I'm not sure if that will work since I've never used CDONTS through Perl, but it's worth a shot.