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in reply to Problem in sending Form data via email

I'd guess that this is a programme that needs to be installed on your server, rather than on your local machine, though without seeing the script it's hard to say. Where have you installed it? If locally, that's probably (at least one part of the) problem. If you'd post the first few lines of the script, someone might be able to tell you.

Another possibility is that the directory where the file is located is not Perl-enabled. This is a problem of webserver configuration rather than Perl. Your ISP will tell you how to fix it - they will have a procedure for you to run CGI scripts (if they don't, you're *really* in trouble).

One final thought is that if you got your programme from Matt's Script Archive, you'd do well to replace it with the much better version that does all the same things but without tears, from nms.

§ George Sherston