Re: [cobalt-users] Newbie Question- New Server -Form to Email Problem

["Adam Holt" <mediadezines@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Joseph Ambrose" <jambrose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Why don't my forms process?  Isn't sendmail "server-wide".  I need to be
> able to use this for people with or without FP extensions.  Some people
use
> javascript order forms and they need to have a form to email script that
> will work.  I also do not want a cgi bin in my virtual sites. (I don't
want
> to take a chance of my hosting customers doing something crazy)  This is
why
> I asked about sendmail being server wide.  Isn't it supposed to work like
> formmail?
>
> <FORM ACTION="/usr/sbin/sendmail" METHOD="POST"

Im no expert, but in 6 years of desiging websites for companies, I've never
put the path to sendmail as the action for a form, perhaps you can do it,
but ive never done that. I've always used one cgi form mail script or
another to sendmail out of the server.  The only place that the path to
sendmail would go is inside of the actual cgi script that sends the mail
through to sendmail.  Sendmail when used in a cgi script has certain
requirements for it to function and most form mail script have this all
worked out for you.

You can find lots of form mail script at www.hotscripts.com

Adam

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