Re: formmail problem

It is probably a Spam content filter set up on her isp that will
not allow this email to go through.   I have found this to be the
case every time in this type of error.

Send the full headers of the form results to the ISP so they can
add this to their white list.

You can add your email address to get the headers.

HTH
bob

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Harness" <magic32(at)jps.net>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 12:15 AM
Subject: formmail problem


: I sent this to a different list a couple of weeks ago, and I
wasn't able to
: successfully glean a solution, so I'm trying it out here.
PLEASE forgive for
: the cross-post.
:
: My client (my mom) has a dial-up account with a local ISP here
in our area
: (skyq.com). She is allocated 20 megs of space for her a
website. The ISP
: does *not* allow a cgi-bin for this webspace, as they want you
to sign up
: for the $240/year domain hosting service to receive such
access/services
: etc.
:
: So I just figured I could put the form in her webspace, but the
actual cgi
: in MY cgi-bin.
:
: We have a simple form that a viewer will fill out, choose from
some 40
: checkboxes, and submit, which will go to my cgi-bin, where i
have a copy of
: matts formmail, which will process the form, and send the
results on to the
: specified email address. Finally the viewer is re-dircted to a
simple
: thank_you page. Works great.
:
: If i put the form and cgi script on my server, and have the
recipient be my
: address it works fine. I get the formmail info with no problem.
I can have
: the recipient be ANY address, and its recieved fine. any of my
hotmail,
: yahoo, personel...etc.
:
: EXCEPT her skyq address will NOT receive the results, no matter
what i try.
: (and she *does* receive regular emails sent to this address
fine). And I
: *DID/DO* change the referrers in the formmail script itself.
:
: When i posted this on the other list, someone suggested that
matts formmail
: has some securtiy problems, and that some hosts wont accept
emails sent from
: a formmail.
:
: so i:
: (1) contacted her ISP/host and this is what i recieved:
:
: "Well your right, we do not have free web programming support
for our users
: much less domains not hosted by us (web programming is
$70.00/hr).
: However, I took a quick look at the code and it *seemed* ok.
Formmail can
: work from another domain like you are trying to do but
obviously you need to
: have everything set up correctly.  I did a test and your
FormMail did not
: give any errors so that indicates FormMail thinks everything
went fine.
:
: Sooo... I don't know what to say... Does her email work?  Is
this script
: working for other email accounts on your domain?  I would start
from the
: begining and get the script working from your own domain and
then work from
: there."
:
: And (2) I even tried a simple cgi script that i made up in a
programming
: class, that again, works fine with any other specied email
address, but will
: not successfully send the form to my moms skyq address. And for
the record,
: I *DO* get to the thank_you page. But again, the results never
make it to my
: moms email box.
:
: I'm just kinda frusterated because i can NOT get this to work.
seems like it
: should be a simple thing. Is there some kind of header thing
that the cgi
: scripts need to pre-fix the info with before my moms ISP/host
will accept
: it?
:
: Again, sorry for the long cross post, and please forgive if
you've even
: tried to help me with this, and I didn't get it. I'm *not* a
perl scripter
: by heart. (yet :)
:
: as always, tia,
:
: -Roger Harness
:
:
:

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