Re: [cobalt-users] RE:How can I rename my Raq 4i from "nobody"?

[Lumir G Janku <lgjanku@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon,

>  I just thought (from what I have read and
> heard) that anything was possible with Linux. Meaning you can customize your
> server.

True, however, one needs to know what one is doing, or one may end up 
calling yelp!!

> I should be able to configure the server itself so it
> does not use the "nobody" name.

Look up the posts -- someone suggested editing sendmail.cf.

> An additional question to this brings to mind would be... How would
> installing FormMail work with the FrontPage forms?

There is no reason why it shouldn't. Your form will call the formmail.cgi.

> Don't the FrontPage
> forms use FrontPage script which means having formmail installed won't help
> those forms?

There may be some glitches, but if you design a straight html form, no problem.

>  I have many customers using FrontPage.  I get a lot of hosting
> business from a local University that has FrontPage classes.  I surely do
> not want to exclude those customers.

It does not matter, the server will process the form through cgi rather 
than through FP.

> >At least look at the script so you can get a clue how that is done. There
> >is a small perl library called mail-lib.pl that has a simple syntax for
> >email handling.
>
> Where is this file located, so I can look at it?

Well, it is a library, so you may get a bit confused  if you don't know 
perl at all.. The formmail.cgi contains a similar scheme.
You may be interested in the part is the code that you insert into your 
perl script that the library handles.

It goes like this:

&send_mail($auth_admin_from_address, $user_email, $subject, $message);
&send_mail($user_email, $auth_admin_email_address, $subject, $admin_message);

This sends the email from admin to the form user and from the form user to 
admin. The message may be preformatted based to whom it goes.
Of course, one has to parse the form input prior to that, but it is not 
that difficult.

I have a hack of the formmail that is configurable through simple setup 
file, on a drawing board. I'll post a link in about a week, so you can look 
at it.
I'll include some forms and a how-to.

LGJ