Script Mail Questions
If you are experiencing problems with script
mailings, you will need to contact your server administrator to verify that you
are using the correct mail path in your configurations (sendmail for UNIX
servers; Blat! mail for NT servers). If you use an incorrect path, your script
may generate 500: Internal Server Error messages. You
should also verify that your host allows CGI scripts to send mail through their
server. Some hosts do not allow this and have "spam blocks" in place
to prevent it.
If you are using the correct mail path in your
script, your script will send mail to the server. What the server does with it
after that is entirely up to the server setup. If your server is not setup
correctly, the mail may not leave the server and may never reach its
destination. If your script functions with no error messages, but you never
receive any mail from it even though you know that the mail path is correct,
you should contact your server administrator to find out what the server is
doing with the mail the script is sending. It is possible that your server is
currently backlogged with mail, is experiencing mail problems or is not setup
correctly to send mail from CGIs.
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