UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

dear all

i've try several scripts and i think this is the simplest scripts that i can understand. please see below:-


if ($num >= 4000000001) {

#use CGI;

#my $query = new CGI;
#my $sendmail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t";
#my $reply_to = "bla@bla.com";
#my $subject = "Subject: Confirmation of your submission";
#my $content = "Thanks for your submission.";
#my $to = "a.b@c.com";==> OR <== #$query->param('a.b@c.com');
#my $file = "subscribers.txt";

#unless ($to) {
# print $query->header;
#print "Please fill in your email and try again";
#}

#open (FILE, ">>$file") or die "Cannot open $file: $!";
#print $to,"\n";
#close(FILE);

#my $send_to = "To: ".$query->param('a.b@c.com');

# open(MAIL, "|/usr/lib/sendmail -t");
# print MAIL "To: $to\n";
#print MAIL "From: $reply_to\n";
#print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n";
#print MAIL "This is the message body.\n";
#print MAIL "Put your message here in the body.\n";
#close (MAIL);

#print $query->header;
#print "Confirmation of your submission will be emailed to you.";

}

Unfortunately, i wont worked and no email received by me. Hope can learn from u guys.

Regards

Probably the best is to look into the documentation that comes with the script for pointers. Failure to send mail may have many causes:

1) The script has bugs, or does not suit the deployment environment (incompatible interpreter versions/incompatible library versions etc.)
2) Improper modification of the script
3) Server blocking outgoing mail, or mail server failure
4) Destination account reject mail, or does not deliver mail
5) Intermediate mail servers reject or even drop mail, or improper configuration cause mail loops that eventually the mail is dropped
........ more

For Perl, you should normally not use "" to surround anything that contains @, $, %. For email address

"me@host.com"

may not be this string. Should use instead

'me@host.com'

Note single quotes used instead of double quotes unless you know Perl's way of escaping special chars. Also I feel uneasy to see this:

#my $send_to = "To: ".$query->param('a.b@c.com');

The stuff inside param() is the form field name. I don't think anybody would use 'a.b@c.com' as a field name so you are 99% mistaken here. I believe the script documentation should tell you how to modify the script. If not, probably you should try another script then.

Maybe IF you have access to the shell, then try to run sendmail from the command line and see if it works first? Otherwise you may need to consult the server administrator that this is working before you spend more hours trying to dig through it.