Friday, March 22, 2013

formmail installation


To install FormMail:

Download the latest version of FormMail from

http://worldwidemart.com/scripts/formmail.shtml.

Open FormMail in a text editor (such as NotePad).

Make sure the Perl path is set correctly. This information can be found on the CPanel homepage.

A typical path is: #!/usr/bin/perl

Make sure the Sendmail path is correct. This information can be found on the CPanel homepage.

A typical path is: /usr/lib/sendmail

Add you domain to the referrers.

For example: @referers = ('www.mydomain.com', '123.123.123.123')

Alter @recipients, if required. A standard setting is: @recipients = @referers Upload FormMail.pl to your

cgi-bin directory, and change the file permissions to 755. Create the form on your web page, with the following fields

form action=http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl

method=POST

input type=hidden

name=recipient

value=email@mydomain.com

input type=hidden

name=subject

value=Feedback from website

input type=hidden

name=redirect

value=http://www.mydomain.com/thankyou.htm

Upload the web page and test the form.

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