Alex, thanks! Two mangos with one stick... we actually haven't done anything yet to 
all the email addresses on the site... and there are others on the team here that 
think forms are a bad way to make people contact you... I myself don't see why 
exactly, since you can make the form look nearly identical to an email client new 
message window... and only if you start using the web page for other things, asking 
for more then the needful info just to let them email you... etc. how is it that 
different than having the browser kick up your email client?

but i guess people prefer the cozy world of their own email client when they click a 
link on a web page and that is  understandable, ends up in their sent mail, etc...

So, we'll investigate the coding link option.. yes, that would be a lot easier to 
implement in the long run. That's the first mango.

and "You *always* have to send a valid http header of some kind back to the browser, 
when writing a CGI." 

is the second mango. I didn't know that... I thought if the cgi invoked a process on 
the server, that was the end of it.

Best from Hawaii
Sivakatirswami


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Alex wrote:

You are doing it the hard way. There any lots of methods for obfuscating email 
addresses on web sites to hide from spam harvesters. There is no reason to force 
people to use form-mailers. I dislike those and I think a lot of other people do too. 
See

<http://www.wbwip.com/wbw/emailencoder.html>
<http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml>

The following actually works, the mail is sent, but it is followed up immediately with 
an error msg from the server... any ideas? for some strange reason the error is not 
logged into the webmaster/error log... i suspect that's because in fact it works,  ie 
the email *is* sent.... does apache expect us to handle stdout?  But, there is none...?

You didn't show us the entire script?
What is the exact error message from the web server?

Most of the time 500 server error problems are because the script does not return a 
valid http header, or returns other content before the http header.

Immediately after startup, before doing any other work:

put "Content-type: text/html" 
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