Cgi Files? where does this script belong?

[spy_charly 0]

hello guys, it's been a couple of days that i dont know where this script must be placed and in which format...i know it is from perl but what format should i use .pl or .cgi, yep i am a newbie

i also saw that there is a folder in my directory called cgi-bin, do i have tu put it there?

#!/usr/bin/perl
$recipient = "me@somemail.com"; # watch out for backslash
$mail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail";

if($ENV{REQUEST_METHOD} eq 'POST')
{ read STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{CONTENT_LENGTH};
}
else
{ $buffer = $ENV{QUERY_STRING};
}
foreach $pair (split /&/, $buffer)
{ ($key, $value) = split /=/, $pair, 2;
$value =~tr/+/ /;
$value =~ s/%([0-9a-fA-F]{2})/chr(hex($1))/eg;
$FORM{$key} = $value;
}
## special treatment for the comments field
$FORM{comments} =~s/rn?/n/sg;
## here comes your form
open MAIL, "|$mail $recipient";
print MAIL <<END;
From: webserver@yoursite.com
Subject: Contact Form

Contact form filled by
$FORM{name}
$FORM{address}
phone: $FORM{phone}
fax: $FORM{fax}

Comments: $FORM{comments}
END
if(!close MAIL) {
print "(anti-spam-content-type:) text/htmlnn";
print "status=fail&error=Your+mail+could+not+be+sent";
}
else
{ print "(anti-spam-content-type:) text/htmlnn";
print "status=ok";
}

[BuffaloHelp 24]

Simply the answer is yes. It makes calling your script easier. However, if I'm not mistaken you're trying to send information over the email using form?

There's built-in script called cgimail and you can find a short tutorial here: How To Use Xisto Cgi Formmail

[spy_charly 0]

thanx boss, actually i was trying to send the Receipent from flash and i thought that using another script it could be possible...But what you provided seems to be very helpful, btw i set a serach on the forum for that topic but i didnt find anything, i guess i will have to be very careful next time... and if i get it working i will show it to youEDITED: i got it working boss, but when it arrives at the mail it arrives like "myname@gamma.xisto.com" is there anyway i can solv this? replacing the account name with my name?

Edited April 3, 2006 by spy_charly (see edit history)

[BuffaloHelp 24]

but when it arrives at the mail it arrives like "myname@gamma.xisto.com" is there anyway i can solv this?

Well that's better than myname@someusinversity.department.edu before...
If you are the only recipient to submitted email then I guess it really does not matter. However, since the mail service is through gamma.xisto.com and our hosting server's name is gamma, I personally do not have the control over that.

I would suggest you contact OpaQue or send queries to Helpdesk (xisto.com/helpdesk) and see if there's a way of doing it.

[gaea 0]

EDITED: i got it working boss, but when it arrives at the mail it arrives like "myname@gamma.xisto.com" is there anyway i can solv this? replacing the account name with my name?

The is the default mailserver. If you it's displaying as that the "from" field in your script is probably misformatted.

[tuddy 0]

Following on from gaea, I have my own question, is it possible to have a code line in there where you can tell the form, which mail server to use and what the email it should be replyed to and if you can put a name instead of an email address?I know you can do it in PHP, but is cgimail that flexible?

[spy_charly 0]

hi tudy!, i dont think you can do it, since it is already done by the cgi script, i tried downloading it but notepad and nor Dreamweaver could open it...my suggestion anyway would be to download the script manually and set the preferences manually as well...the problem is that i dont know about cgi and that makes more the things more difficult...