Re: Formmail problem

>Hello Terry Allen. At 21:17 +1100 16.01.2001, you wrote:
>
>
>>Hi again,
>>      I've been following the instructions for setting up the Formmail
>>Perl script from Matt's Script Archive. Basically, the only settings for
>>the form are where Sendmail is & according to the WebTen docs, that is as
>>in the script:
>>/usr/bin/sendmail
>>      The other thing is to set the Referrer field to the domain name &
>>IP Address you want to allow to use the script. I then set the Permissions
>>of the script to chmod 755 as I did for WWWBoard, but the script returns an
>>Internal Server 500 Error. Can anyone enlighten me as to where I've gone
>>wrong?
>
>I vaguely remember this...
>
>Do you by chance use the dual stack configuration, with only one
>physical ethernet connection, and the form wants to talk to the mail
>server on the different IP number, but on the same connector? So you
>need to either change the settings so that formmail goes OUT of the
>physical machine to the gateway and THEN back to your machine again.
>I once got directions from Tenon support how to do this, but I
>couldn't make it work. So my decision was to add an ethernet card and
>use two physical connections. No problem since then.
>
>I am sure you looked at the WebTen Error-log. What did it say?
>
>Best wishes, Christian.

Hi again,
        As I emailed before, I found the problem was that I'd uploaded the
file incorrectly as a binary instead of text file.


        Bye for now, Terry Allen
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