| | Has anyone implemented a system like this? Is there a better way? Can | anyone point me to a model I could follow? |
Hi, Yes, we've implemented some things like this. Either custom cgi's or using the FormMail.pl script from Matt's perl archives. In other words, the problem is - trying to send emails directly off a personal computer of some kind means you have to deal with too many variations of how these machines are set up to use email. A nightmare. So instead, you use a 'post' command to send off your data to a webserver somewhere running a cgi like FormMail which in turn sends the email for you. If you have an ISP and they let you put cgi scripts in your home directory (generally ~/public_html/cgi-bin or something like that) you can use FormMail or your own variety of script. (It can be an MC script if you have the Metacard engine installed on the web server for example; I sent a post last year of how to do this.) Lately I have wanted to do this with the mail being in turn an html mail with a form on it with a submit button. At work we developed a perl script (mimemail.pl) for sending html mail that does a lot of the work of composing the right headers, and what my MC cgi's do is create the html file to be used as the attachment and then system off a command line to mimemail.pl. Make sense? Sadhu _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
