Confusion over Formmail?

[reneep]

I believe this would be the appropriate place to post this:

I'm working with the owner of the yuleballdetroit website to get everything streamlined, and neither one of us are familiar with perl or with the inner workings of formmail. I noticed that some bits of the script, as found in the cgi-bin, have already been modified. Are there any other changes that we need to make to the script, or is it supposed to be ready to go, and the reason we can't get it to work is in the HTML code of the page?

Thanks for any light you can shed on this matter..

Renee
Yule Ball Detroit

[Ray]

What is the problem you are having with the script? Everything looks right in the HTML page, and there shouldn't be anything else in the script that you need to do.

[reneep]

When the form is filled out and the Submit button is clicked, it processes for a few minutes (on my cable modem) and then the FormMail page is shown with credit to Matt's Script Archive. No email is ever received with the information, and the redirect to the thankyou.html file never occurs.

I've tried everything I could think of to correct this problem, but like I said, this is my first experience with FormMail, so that didn't amount to much.

Thanks..
Renee

[Kevin]

There was a site configuration problem with respect to how many processes you were allowed to spawn from a request. This was causing the mail process to not start, and it was deadlocking the perl script. I fixed this problem and the script should work now, as may be evident by the large number of test messages you likely received from root@nozonenet.com.

Sorry about that!

[reneep]

Thanks so much, Kevin!