Re: formmail

Sounds like the key here is that the web hosting company changed their
servers.  Check with that company to make sure the pathing hasn't changed as
a result.  Depending upon how recently this happened, it may be possible
that the form is intermittently still trying to send to the OLD server,
especially if they kept that server live and the IP addresses have changed.
Until that new IP fully propogates, people who try the CentreStage.com
domain may end up on the old server.

As for why it's now sorting alphabetically, I didn't see where you were
setting the sort flag in the HTML so I can only assume the script itself has
in some way been updated.  You have to explicitly use the "sort" field to
force it to be ordered alphabetically.

What version of FormMail are you using?  Note that earlier versions of
FormMail have a significant security hole, which has been corrected in the
latest version (v 1.91).

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shelley Watson" <shelley(at)internavigate.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 4:33 AM
Subject: formmail


> Dear Folks
>
> I'm a bit stumped on this one (and too tired to think straight) sooooo.
> Have a form at www.centrestagedance.com/regform.html and the client
received
> the emailed forms with all the fields in alphabetical order.  Up until the
> webhosting company changed their servers, etc. this wasn't an issue.  The
> only change was from .cgi to .pl for the value.  Now I can't figure out
what
> would change it to show alphabetically when the default is in the order
the
> browser reads the form.  Also, for some reason now I can't even get it to
> work - getting a file not found.  Any ideas because I'm lost on this one.
>
> tia
>
> Shelley
>

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