Anyone familiar with CGI and/or Perl?

[Colebert]

I just got an email from the ISP that says that FormMail is INCOMPATABLE with their server. Formmail is a CGI/Perl script that uses the '/usr/lib/sendmail' directory on the serverside to send an email to a receipient from a form submitted on a website. They SAY it can't be used with the server they are using. I don't know the type of server other than it is some kind of Win2k HTTP server that gives me this when I FTP into it:

220 hermod Microsoft FTP Service (Version 4.0).

Is it really true that this CGI script can't be used on it? If so, what kind CAN i use?

Thanks for any help.


-Cole

 

[Elledan]

It should work, as far as I know... I've never heard of Perl scripts being incompatible with a certain type of server.

 

[Colebert]

Thanks for the reply. Where I ran into problems is that I don't think there is a BIN/LIB/SENDMAIL directory/function on this server. Or if there is, I couldn't find it and they "investigated the matter" for 3 days only to tell me it wont work on the server. I had all the other variables configured. Can anyone tell from the FTP 220 what version of webserver they are running?


-Cole

 

[n0cmonkey]

Win2k will NOT have /bin/lib/sendmail. To my knowledge (I did check sendmail.org and sendmail.com) sendmail does not work on win2k. If you edit the cgi script you may be able to use whatever smtp program win2k uses (I have no idea if it even HAS an smtp program bundled with it like this), the script should work.

 

[DAM]

you might want to do this in ASP assuing they are running IIS and allow you to run asp codes, just use cdonts.




dam()

 

[bevancoleman]

You might be able to use a sendmail clone called blat. Very good.

http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/blat.html
http://gepasi.dbs.aber.ac.uk/softw/Blat.html

The first link is the current maintainer, they have examples in the download zip for it useage in CGI and HTML.