cgiemail program

[tidydougal]

now heres my problem... im at a stage where im carefuly following a user guide on how to set up a cgiemail template, form and so on so that i can recieve basic email's but im finding that im getting confused when it says i have to point my "ACTION" to my cgiemail program and i cant seem to find any downloadable cgiemail programs to solve my probelm!

i now this sounds stupid but could someone jus give me a rough guide to what the cgiemail program is? is it just the dreamweaver html form or is it a script ive got to download and place in my cgi-bin?

[mack]

From what I have been able to find online cgiemail is a more complexed version of a form to email acript.

It appears to be a program designed to run on linux/unix servers, and it also looks as if you will neeed root acces to install it.

When you where saying "I have to point my "ACTION" to my cgiemail program"

What this means is building a form that sends information to the cgiemail program it's self. The program will then forward the message/commens to your inbox. I gues it is a little more complexed then that, but I did not have enough time to fully read through the documentation, just enough to gather the basics.

If you are wanting to use this sort of system to allow site users to forward messages to you then you may be a better off using a simple php script to do this. You will be able to set it up on your web space a lot easier.

What use did you have in mind for cgiemail?

Mack.

[rockhound]

If your server has cgiemail installed you must find the file it is located in an include that in your action.

example= http:/yoursite.com/cgi_bin/cgiemail/

[purple_cat]

I'm a newbie and have just spent a couple of days trying to get round this too.

In my case, the webhost provided the formmail script but I read more than one set of instructions, one of which said to place it in the cgi-bin and another which said to choose a directory to place it in, hence I was confused, so I share your pain!

In the end I created a new directory for it and put my redirected page in it too (to thank the user for completing the request, bla, bla). But then it only worked from my computer, so I had to go back to the FAQ's on the host's support pages which gave advice on slightly altering the script.

All seems to be well so far . . .