PLEASE help with formail.pl and plesk 8.2.0

Sean_O · 5th April 2008

I have been trying for about 12 hours to make the formmail.pl script cooperate with my simple form page.

formmail version 1.92

server hosting our website is running plesk 8.2.0

Page was created in Dreamweaver CS3

html of the form: (note that I had to remove the < > characters to keep the html readable here, otherwise it just drops th actual form into the post)

form action="../cgi-bin/FormMail.pl" method="post" enctype="text/plain" name="contact" target="_blank" id="contact" dir="ltr" lang="en"
p class="style11">some text/p
p span class="style16" Name: /span
input name="Name" type="text" id="Name" value="Enter your full name here" size="53" /
/p
p span class="style16" e-mail:/span
input name="email" type="text" id="email" value="Enter your e-mail address here" size="53" /
/p
p
textarea name="comments" cols="48" rows="5" id="comments" Enter your questions, comments or suggestions here and click the 'Submit' button below.

A representative will contact you via e-mail, usually within 24 hours. /textarea
/p
p
input type="submit" name="submit-button" id="submit-button" value="Submit" /
input name="recipient" type="hidden" id="recipient" value="contact@mysiteaddress.com" /
/p
/form

Notice that there is no "results" value. This is because the tutorial I used to build the form completely glossed over it as if it were unimportant. I have had many 404 page not found errors as well a internal server errors in my quest to make this thing work, so I must need a results field in there somewhere, right?

Can someone PLEASE help me figure out what I need to do in order to make this run? Is there something in Plesk that needs to be adjusted or switched on/off to make this work properly?

Thank you in advance if you are able to assist,

-Sean

othellotech · 5th April 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sean_O

form action="../cgi-bin/FormMail.pl" method="post" enctype="text/plain" name="contact" target="_blank" id="contact" dir="ltr" lang="en"

lose the target, lang and dir parts of that and make sure that the FM.pl really is in ../cgibin/ from where the html form is

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sean_O

input name="recipient" type="hidden" id="recipient" value="contact@mysiteaddress.com" /

*NEVER* put the recipient of a form in the actual form, you will be abused by 1000 different spammers within days of uploading the page, get the IP blacklisted, and will be contributing to the 10-ton-o-sh!te we all get in our inboxes everyday

Apart from that, everything else should be fine - you have configured the formmail.pl file correctly ?

Sean_O · 6th April 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by othellotech

lose the target, lang and dir parts of that and make sure that the FM.pl really is in ../cgibin/ from where the html form is

*NEVER* put the recipient of a form in the actual form, you will be abused by 1000 different spammers within days of uploading the page, get the IP blacklisted, and will be contributing to the 10-ton-o-sh!te we all get in our inboxes everyday

Apart from that, everything else should be fine - you have configured the formmail.pl file correctly ?

LOL! Did not know that about the address in th form field, thanks. Nobody likes 10 tons of sh!ite

What should I put in place within that field? Just the domain address? Or should I just leave it blank? Or is there something else?

BTW, thank you very much for responding to my query, I will give this a shot a bit later this evening and report back.

othellotech · 6th April 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sean_O

What should I put in place within that field? Just the domain address? Or should I just leave it blank? Or is there something else?

Put the recipient in the formmail.pl itself so the form can only send mail to whom you specify

TDMWeb · 6th April 2008

If you are using Matt's formmail, which seems likely, I'd advise not to do so (it's never been very secure) and contact your host for advice on which form-to-mail method to use. Good hosts may well have their own secure form-to-mail.