I am definately not a guru. A while back when I was trying to get my formmail to work I went about crazy. I did everything the way it said at http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/
It ended up that when I was sending the files via ftp I was in binary mode and needed to be in ascii. It took me 10 hours to figure that out.
Just a thought. It might work!
-------------------- Amy Brown Life Skills 101 Private Address Posts: 3502 | From: Lake Helen, FL, USA | Registered: Feb 2001
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Robert, are you using a custom script or one of the scripts posted at the link Amy added?
Also, are the permissions set correctly on the folder that contains the cgi script? If you are using a cgi-bin directory that was already setup on your server, it's probably already set correctly, but if you are adding a new folder you have to use TelNet to log in to the server and execute a few commands to set the permissions on that folder. This is something you should have your webhost do for you if you are not familiar with TelNet. If the permissions are not set right, the server cannot execute the script.
Otherwise, you can drop the following code into your form once the cgi is working, this will email it to you.
"<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="your@emailaddress">" "<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="URL of your "Thank You" page after the user submits the form">" "<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Your preferred emailed result subject line!">"
Be sure to remove the quotes before and after the brackets, I used them so the BB wouldnt interpret the code.
the "input type=hidden" parts make these items invisible to the user but Dreamweaver will show them in edit mode.
You should be able to drop these in anywhere in your form, I have them after the submit button on my forms just so I can locate them easier.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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