[kipaqra]

Hi

I am new to cgi and need a little help on where I am going wrong. I have the basic html form sat with my perl script and thankyou html file in a cgi-bin directory on the server as instructed by my server suppoirt team. I have set the permission to 775 as instructed (owner read-write-execute)

basic html form
<form action="/cgi-bin/formmail.pl" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="webmaster@elizabeth-lewis.co.uk"/>
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="basic cgi form"/>
<input type="hidden" name="required" value=""/>
<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="thankyou.html"/><table>
<tr>
<td>What is your name:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="name" /></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>What is your email address:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="email" /></td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td colspan="2"><input type="submit" /></td>
</tr>
</form>

I am using Matt Script Archive "formail.pl"

FormMail, Version 1.92, Matt Wright, mattw @scriptarchive. com

I have amended the following:

@referers = ('www.elizabeth-lewis.co.uk');

@recipients = &fill_recipients('^webmaster\@elizabeth-lewis\.co\.uk');

when I run the script from my webpage on the server, I get the following message:

Error: Bad/No Recipient
There was no recipient or an invalid recipient specified in the data sent to FormMail. Please make sure you have filled in the recipient form field with an e-mail address that has been configured in @recipients. More information on filling in recipient form fields and variables can be found in the README file.

As far as I can tell, I am doing everything right but I still the the same message.

Can anybody help?

[End User]

Try changing this line:

@recipients = &fill_recipients('^webmaster\@elizabeth-lewis\.co\.uk');

to this:

@recipients = &fill_recipients('webmaster@elizabeth-lewis.co.uk');

[kipaqra]

the ^ and \ characters are the new format for the recipient as told in the latest update. I have tried to change to the format you suggested but I still get the same no recipient or an invalid recipient error.

[bear]

Originally Posted by kipaqra

<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="webmaster@elizabeth-lewis.co.uk"/>

@recipients = &fill_recipients('^webmaster\@elizabeth-lewis\.co\.uk');

I have an older version of the secured FormMail I occasionally use, and the syntax is very different. I'd suggest trying without the XHTML ending "/>" in the hidden input. Can you point to where you got the newer version so I can have a look?

[kipaqra]

I have sorted out the formmail script problem. Thanks to all for your help.