E-mail form and Survey

Here. Let’s try to remove the problem at the source:

http://pastie.org/400378

When you get to that page, click on the Raw button on the right side.
That will open a window with the raw text in it, and that will
eliminate the offending characters (I just checked). Simply select
all, copy, and paste into Freeway, overwriting whatever is there in
the Page / HTML Markup dialog. Adjust the e-mail addresses, and you
should be good.

Sorry this is being such a drudge for you.

Walter

On Feb 25, 2009, at 5:55 PM, Al wrote:

Page still doesn’t show up Walter even after aligning it all.


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Progress!

I guess this is right then?

http://highnoontoastmasters.com/test.php

I entered info and hit submit but haven’t received an email yet.
I am thinking I need to change something in my control panel for PHP with them.
No drudge for me. I am learning thanks to you.

Al


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Yup, this is working as far as I can see. You may need to change the
from address to something within your domain. IF GoDaddy host your
domain mail for highnoontoastmasters, then use an e-mail address in
that domain. You will need to change the second two instances of the
address – the first one is the TO address, the second and third are
the FROM addresses.

Walter

On Feb 25, 2009, at 8:06 PM, Al wrote:

Progress!

I guess this is right then?

http://highnoontoastmasters.com/test.php

I entered info and hit submit but haven’t received an email yet.
I am thinking I need to change something in my control panel for PHP
with them.
No drudge for me. I am learning thanks to you.

Al


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Hey Walt,
Go Daddy doesn’t host my mail. Still haven’t received an email after hitting submit. Does GD need to be PHP friendly for the form to work or is that independent of them? I am thinking there is soemthing I need to do in my control panel with them.

As far as page layout I assume I just need to add graphics with words beside the text fields so people know to fill in email for example and name …

And to do a longer survey or mult. choice I just add more buttons with values etc…,
My goal is to wrap this up today so I don’t need to ask more questions today.
Thanks,
Al


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I wasn’t imagining that your RoadRunner mail was going through
GoDaddy. But if you send an e-mail to
postmaster(at)highnoontoastmasters.com, GoDaddy (by default) will
probably handle it for you, even if all they do is forward it on to you.

Because of all the spam-bots and zombie PCs out there, it is
increasingly hard to send mail from a script and have it get anywhere.
Most ISPs (yours included) will probably reject any message where the
sending address is not “real”. How they define that is a very slippery
question, but your chances can be improved by following these rules:

If you’re sending from a server somewhere, make sure that server has a
“Reverse DNS” address, and that it makes sense for the domain you are
sending from. So if you are sending an e-mail from auto(at)example.org
(I’m using the (at) construction here to get around the Web forum’s
auto-filters, not because that’s what I think you would be using as an
address), then make sure that a lookup of your server’s IP returns
somemachine.example.org as the machine name. Failing that, make sure
that the sending address you use is within the same domain as the
machine name for your server.

Further, if you’re sending from the example.org domain, from the
somemachine.example.org server, make sure that somemachine.example.org
is set as one of your mailservers. Whomever manages your DNS will need
to add an MX record for somemachine.example.org, even if that’s not
the machine that handles most of the mail for that domain. Just make
sure that it HAS an MX record, even if the priority is set really
really low.

Now if you were following my example quite literally, and you decided
to set the script to send mail TO yourself as if it was sent BY
yourself (at your rr account), then realize that RoadRunner would
probably take one look at that, realize it didn’t originate from one
of their “blessed” mail servers, and dump it in the trash without even
looking at it twice.

Walter

On Feb 26, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Al wrote:

Go Daddy doesn’t host my mail. Still haven’t received an email after
hitting submit. Does GD need to be PHP friendly for the form to work
or is that independent of them? I am thinking there is soemthing I
need to do in my control panel with them.


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OK Walter we finally went over my head…

I did change the “to” email addr. (the last one in the script) to another addr. with no luck. I had all the email set to local addr. here at home - GO Daddy offers email but I don’t use it.

It is time to get out of the game… you’ve been great - wish you were local and I would hire you.

I am going to have to look at a ready made survey script that I can use that makes it easy even if I have to pay.

I am releasing you so you can help other people.
Thanks for all,
Al


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Hi Walter

I was trying this as well and it doesn’t send the mail for me either!

The page tells me it was sent but I haven’t got anything at the various accounts I tried it with.

David


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It’s got to be down to the server setup – spam controls or sendmail
being strict or something like that. I had no trouble sending myself
some mail, but I was sending from a server I control, and that follows
all the rules of mail forwarding for people it knows.

Walter

On Feb 26, 2009, at 6:59 PM, DeltaDave wrote:

Hi Walter

I was trying this as well and it doesn’t send the mail for me either!


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It’s got to be down to the server setup —

I will ask the question

Thanks Walter

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