>I have FormMail.pl from Matts Script Archive (no snickers please).
>Well it works perfectly, redirects, validators, etc, only one problem...
>IT WONT SEND THE EMAIL!!!. heh. Any ideas?
check the settings in the script to see what filepath it's using to find
the mailer. sendmail has several different, equally traditional locations
including /usr/bin/sendmail, /usr/sbin/sendmail, /usr/ucblib/sendmail, etc.
it's been a *long* time since i looked at FormMail, but i vaguely recall it
not checking to see if the mailer actually exists before trying to write to
it.
the fastest way to find the declaration will be to use a simple 'grep
sendmail' command on the script and resuorce files until something appears.
then do a 'which sendmail' to see if the two match.
>Second.. POP mail...
>It doesnt want to authorize, even if I telnet to it 110, it wont auth.
>Im using Qpop, any ideas there?
take a look in your /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf files to see if
you've turned on the popper. most internet services don't run full-time,
they're launched on an at-need basis by 'inetd', the general-purpose
internet server daemon. inetd keeps a database of port numbers and
program startup parameters which it generates from the information in those
two files.
if inetd is actually launching the popper, but you're failing out on the
user authentication stage (i.e.: checking the password), i'm not sure what
the problem would be. permissions problems are always a good place to
start looking.. if the popper itself isn't running as root, it won't be
allowed to bind to port 110 for security reasons.
the same might be true if it's specified to run as root in /etc/inetd.conf,
but isn't actually owned by root. there are all sortsa places where the
built-in ownership checking might give you hassles if you try to run a
non-root program as root. fortunately, the solution is simple: 'chown
root ; chgrp root ; chmod 0111'.
mike stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 'net geek..
been there, done that, have network, will travel.
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