Form problems using Visual Form Mail

[whatever]

Hi,
I am having difficulties getting my form to operate on a new site and I cannot get support from Visual Form Mail during the holiday break.
The cgi code appears correct along with permission at 755 and the html script for the form is correct( I think)
I suspect the path to sendmail is incorrect
I have a Linux server and cPanel where it says Path to sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail. I have seen other mail programs that require some change to the sendmail path in the cgi script.
The page is http://www.familyhistoryarticles.com/contacts.php
Can any one offer and suggestions? Thank you.

[Faglork]

- do you get any error messages?
- did you check your server error log?

faglork

[whatever]

Hi Faglork,

I do not get any error message, nor any errors in the server error log. The email just does not arrive in my inbox. The email system works normally though.

[whatever]

Fixed! Coding error. Thank you

[pabloroberto]

Whatever

You might also want to consider FormMail available at www.tectite.com. Since you are already using php pages this php script works very nicely and can also help to hide your email addresses from spam bots, send to multiple emails, use multiple forms etc. It is available as a free download.http://www.tectite.com

[DrTandem1]

Just a word of warning for those of you hand-coding. Many form scripts such as this on CGI and PHP are being hijacked to turn your site into a spam email server. You need to be sure to strip code from the form that a user may enter that would produce line breaks and Cc mailings.

I would also suggest to block attempts at people entering invalid email addresses and email addresses that use your site's own domain.

Lastly, I think the PHP versions are superior to CGI and simpler to use.

[Faglork]

Originally Posted by DrTandem1

Just a word of warning for those of you hand-coding. Many form scripts such as this on CGI and PHP are being hijacked to turn your site into a spam email server. You need to be sure to strip code from the form that a user may enter that would produce line breaks and Cc mailings.

I would also suggest to block attempts at people entering invalid email addresses and email addresses that use your site's own domain.

Words of wisdom! But this also is true for almost all freely available formmail scripts, if you check the code, there is no parameter checking at all. How about a list of secure formmail scripts?

I can suggest two:
http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml (PERL)
http://www.stadtaus.com/en/php_scripts/formmail_script/ (PHP)

Both have a bunch of security features, I have used them for quite a while and they seem OK (i.e. I had no spamming problems so far).

I had a look at the source of the tectite script mentioned above and it looks okay as well.


But keep in mind: 100% security is almost impossible.

Your suggestions / experience?

faglork

[DrTandem1]

One other suggestion I offer is not to name the files you use for scripts in such a way that it identifies that it is an email script. For instance, many scripts are named something like sendmail.php. Just name it something else that has no such connotation. Be sure that the associated forms have the script named to match.