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Old 03-18-2004, 03:51 PM
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Idge,
To make things easy on yourself, the best thing to do is contact your hosting provider. They should have available for you a cgi or Perl based script already set-up for use on their servers, and will install it for you in your cgi-bin. They will most likely even give you simple direction on setting up the action="" script portion of your form coding so you can access the cgi script they set up for you.

Some scripts require what are called hidden="" links within your html code that tells the script whom to send the info to and what the subject line and such should be. Other scripts keep all that information wihtin the script to protect you from having your email address lifted by a sniffer.

Either way, your hosting provider will help you get set-up the right way. They know their servers, and know what will and won't work on them. Hit and miss on others suggestions is not the way to go with this kind of thing.

Best of luck.
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