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This Dreamhost thread was started by dazedthoughts on 2010-05-02 07:07:08:

Post Reply? Hi, I have a simple sendmail and it does not return an error but yet the mail does not send. The page is: http://grad.dazedthoughts.com/emailTEST.html the cgi is: #!/usr/local/bin/perl -wT use CGI qw(:all);# imports the CGI.pm module use HTML::Template; #imports the template module which allows for separation of Perl and HTML #local variables all start with my my ($email, $from, $subject); #creates the variable from the form input with the name email $email = param(’email’); #### generate html feedback print “Content-type: text/htmlnn”; print “Your email address ($email) has been successfully entered. “; print “Thank you. You will receive a confirmation email shortly.”; #########creates email $subject = Confirmation Email $from = “debbie@dazedthoughts.com”; open (MAIL, “|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t”) || &ErrorMessage; print MAIL “To: $email nFrom: $fromn”; print MAIL “Subject:n”; print MAIL “Confirmation Emailnn”; print MAIL “Thank you for signing up. Your email address ($email) has been successfully “; print MAIL “stored. Have a nice day.n”; close (MAIL); sub ErrorMessage { print “<P>The server has a problem. Aborting script. n”; exit; } thanks in advance for any help that you can give me. Debbie

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