RE: Send mail weirdness

[Greg Smith]

It could be that AOL looks at the headers and sees that the message is being
sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is the user of many web servers, which is
different than the from address. It thinks that a forgery is taking place
and that the e-mail is spam and discards it.

Just an idea which I am trying to prove with an ISP in Germany where I have
experienced the same problem.


Greg Smith
 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Gilden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 10:41 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Send mail weirdness 


Greetings,

my client claims he never receives any email from his
contact page! I however have set up a 'BCC'
and am getting email via the script below.

His connection to the 'net is via AOL,
and when I mail him from my email client using

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

he receives it, but not from the script below.
Do you see any errors or problems via AOL?

What could be the issue, I just don't see anything!
Thanks :)

Dave Gilden
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#!/usr/local/bin/perl 

use CGI qw/:standard/;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use POSIX 'strftime';
use strict;
my $mailprog = '/usr/lib/sendmail';

my $subject = "Jakes's Lawn Care Contact Page";
my $date = strftime('%A, %B %d, %Y %I:%M %p',localtime(time() + (2*60*60)));

my $name = param('First Name') . " ". param('Last Name');

my $email= param('email');
$email = lc($email);


# Send E-Mail
&send_mail;


# Return HTML Page 
print redirect("/pages/thankyou.html");
exit;

sub send_mail {
my $data;
$email ||= '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';

    open(MAIL, "|$mailprog -t");
    print MAIL "TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED]";
    print MAIL "BCC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]";
    print MAIL "From: $name <$email>\n";
    print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n\n";

print MAIL "$subject: $date\n", '-' x 60, "\n" ;

foreach my $val (param()){
    $data = param($val);
    print MAIL "$val: $data\n";
    } 

close(MAIL);
}

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