Don't forget to post to list and not just the orginal sender!! > > Dan: > > except that I ran the same script on my local linux box and > got a similar error regarding headers: > > [Wed Jan 29 09:44:52 2003] [error] [client 192.168.0.202] > malformed header from script. Bad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > /var/www/cgi-b in/test/test.cgi.
Copy the line that has the $to line in it and send it here. > > Same code that I'm trying to run on the server. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Muey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 11:18 AM > To: Ron Geringer > Subject: RE: Need help > > > > > > > > Dan: > > > > you are right - I could have been a little clearer. > > > > Here's the actual error from the log that I get when I run > the script: > > > > qmail-inject: fatal: unable to parse this line: > > Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Confirmation of your > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: text/plain > > [Wed Jan 29 12:05:44 2003] [error] [client 68.13.40.38] malformed > > header from script. Bad [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you're using qmail it would be better to have the > qmail-inject path instead of sendmail which is probably a sym > link to qmail-inject. > > To open a pipe to qmail-inject you need > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -f $to_address > > Which means you'll have to modify the open statement to use that. > > Do you know what the -i and -t options do for qmail-inject? > > See you're trying to use sendmail's switches with qmail, do > they work, have the same options, probably not. > > Could be those switches are causing the bad header becaue > what they do in sendmail could be totally different than > qmail. That is why it's best to use a module or at least use > the right program/options. > > Dan > > > > > Ron > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dan Muey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:56 AM > > To: Ron Geringer; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: Need help > > > > > > > I'm pretty much used to scripting sendmail applications in > > tcl - and > > > I'm very new to perl so this may be a dumb question. I'm > > working with > > > a sendmail script that I got off the internet. The script > that I'm > > > working with is listed below: > > > > > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > > use CGI; > > > > > > my $query = new CGI; > > > my $sendmail = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -i -t"; > > > my $reply_to = "Reply-to: geringer2\@cox.net"; > > > my $subject = "Subject: Confirmation of your submission"; my > > > $content = "Thanks for your submission."; > > > my $to = $query->param('send_to'); > > > my $file = "subscribers2.txt"; > > > > > > unless ($to) { > > > print $query->header; > > > print "Please fill in your email and try again"; > > > } > > > > > > open (FILE, ">>$file") or die "Cannnot open $file: $!"; print > > > $to,"\n"; close(FILE); > > > > > > my $send_to = "To: ".$query->param('send_to'); > > > > > > open(SENDMAIL, "|$sendmail") or die "Cannot open $sendmail: > > $!"; print > > > SENDMAIL $reply_to; print SENDMAIL $subject; print SENDMAIL > > $to; print > > > SENDMAIL "Content-type: text/plain\n\n"; print SENDMAIL $content; > > > close(SENDMAIL); > > > > > > print $query->header; > > > print "Confirmation of your submission will be emailed to > you."; ~ ~ > > > > > > -------------------------------------- > > > > > > The only difference between this and the one I found is > the "\" in > > > fron of the "@". When I run this cript - the error that I'm > > seeing is > > > that the header is malformed. > > > > If what you're trying to get help on is the malformed header error > > then this is probably the problem : > > > > You should need to do \@ if you're using double quotes, > shouldn't need > > if you use single quotes. > > > > Did having that ( the \ in front of the @ ) cause the > error? Could you > > be less ambiguous about the problem, is the problem the 'header > > malformed' error or you can't send mail or ...? What > happens when you > > run it form the command line? > > > > You might want to look into a module, they're much easier > to work with > > and portable. The one I started working wioth lately is : > > http://search.cpan.org/author/JENDA/Mail-Sender-0.8.04/Sender. > pm > > Or search cpan and find one you like/does what you want and > you'll probably > on ly need a few lines of code to do what you want. > > Dan > > > > > If anyone can tell me what I did wrong - I would appreciate it. > > > > What I'm trying to do is put a perl script on a server > which will take > > data from an html document and redirect it to an email > address. Once I > > get one to work, I'm confident that I can make > modifications and work > > with it (testing etc), to better understand how perl makes it works. > > > > I would really appreciate any help I can get. > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
