Re: [cgiwrap-users] Sending email using perl scripts.

[David D. <dav...@ol...>]

I apologize for sending the attachments.  I too am skeptical about attachments from people I do not know.  I believe my problem is not with sendmail, but with cgiwrap.  All of the emails are delivered.  If the email does not have a period in the name, the browser returns "Thank you for your CD-ROM catalog request.  You will receive a conformation by e-mail".  If there is a period in the name the browser returns "Internal Server Error. The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request".  But as I said the emails are being sent.

I will try the suggestion of writing the email to a file first.

Thank you all again for your help.

David


The following message was sent by Joe Hourcle <on...@dc...> on Wed, 3 Oct 2001 13:44:14 -0400 (EDT).

> 
> 
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, David DelBiondo wrote:
> 
> > My emails are being sent.  The problem is the response to the web
> > browser.  If the name on the email has a period in it
> > (som...@so...)  a script error is produced.  If the email
> > does not have a period in it, the response page is displayed.  I
> > attached two gifs showing what happens (if they made it through).
> > The error log has a malformed header error logged by cgiwrap.  Thank
> > you for the help.
> 
> Sorry, but I havea strict policy against attachments from people I don't
> know.  [Well, even from people I do know].
> 
> Anyway, I don't know exactly what the error message is in the images, but
> I would suggest changing the open() call to write out to a file, and then
> trying the call to sendmail by hand:
> 
> 	cat msgfile | sendmail -t
> 
> (where 'msgfile' is whatever name you write it out to).
> 
> This will ensure that you get whatever error sendmail's trying to throw.
> [There may be some bad address matching call, etc, that's corrupting the
> address before writing to sendmail, or any one of a number of problems
> which could cause sendmail to crap out]
> 
> -----
> Joe Hourcle
> 
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