CGI FormMail and AOL

AOL hates me

[Cienwen]

Hello,

I have to warn you, I do not write code so I have used the code provided by my host. It works great when I am directing the results to a Yahoo email address. When I try to direct it to an AOL email it absolutely refuses to show up in the inbox!

Does anyone know if this is an AOL problem and is there a way to fix it?

Thank you in advance.

Cienwen

[perl_diver]

sorry, no see code, no can help.

[Cienwen]

Thank you for showing some interest in my dilemma none the less.

As I said, it is the stuff my host has provided and I am just learning. On my server there is my CGI-Bin folder and in it is the code on a file called "cgiemail" When I download the file to my PC I can't get it to open, not even in note pad, so I'm have problems displaying the code.

Have any idea how I can get it. If not I will accept my doom and try something else.

Thank you in advance.

Cienwen

[perl_diver]

perl/cgi scripts are just plain text files unless they have been encoded somehow, which is possible to do but is sort of unusual. Normally you log into your FTP account, go into the cgi-bin folder, select ASCII or TEXT as the transfer method in the FTP program you use, and then transfer the file from the server to your PC, the same is true in reverse. Open Notepad and open the perl/cgi script. If it does not open I don't know what the problem is, even if it's too big you can open it with Wordpad or any text editor.

I'm not sure what AOL uses for email these days, but I know in the past their email system was not the same as most of the internet. But emails should still get delivered to an AOL address, unless AOL is blocking the domain you are sending it from or a spam filter is catching it and not allowing it through.

[marcs]

cgiemail is a compiled binary, you can't view source from a binary.

As to AOL, they likely banned the IP of the server you are on. That would prevent form feedback from reaching any AOL email address.

[jatar_k]

I don't know about banning, seems a little over the top

AOL has some very strict rules regarding email servers and what they will and won't accept.

try this
[postmaster.aol.com...]

[Cienwen]

Thank you all for your responses.

Even with your advice I was not able to open the cgimail when taken off my server.

However, I was able to get my form working with AOL when I switched to a PHP script. I guess it was the cgimail.

Thank you all.

Cienwen

[piskie]

AOL banning whole servers or complete IP blocks is a common occurence after they have been Spammed.

Sledgehammer tactics yes, but thats what they do.

[jatar_k]

they could just be using an RBL also, some of those are really strict. In the past I have had to remove RBL checks to allow some countries to send us valid emails.