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captinmorgn
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« on: March 24, 2003, 05:00:00 AM »

Hi, I have this page as part of the website. http://www.keycodesxpress.com/membertest.html

Seems it works OK across all browsers sofar. EXCEPT AOL. When the user fills in the info I receive a blank email?

Could some take a look at the code and let me know what AOL doesn't like?

THANKS,
Joe
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« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2003, 05:23:00 AM »

Ok, your form action is set to a simple email link, and though most mail clients will do this, AOL will not.  Your best bet is to get some type of scripting to execute the form.  I have a perl script maker available.
Just go to the link below, make a script, and you don't have to make the form because you already have it.  Simply match the field names and set the email address you want the form to send to. Upload the pl script to your cgi-bin, give it a chmod of 755, and set your form action to the name of the script (action="cgi-bin/myscript.pl").
If you have trouble, let me know.  It should work smoothly.
 http://twebman.lunarpages.com/perl/

You can also do it in php, if you know the coding, or you can get the coding at several places on the 'net.
 
 [ March 24, 2003, 09:40 PM: Message edited by: TWebMan ]
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« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2003, 08:07:00 AM »

THANKS for the response!

Very helpful and useful site you have created!

Joe
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« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2003, 04:24:00 PM »

Another thing about AOL is they don't allow pop3 email.
Not sure if that has anything to do with it.
But it might be an idea to mail AOL and ask them.
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« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2003, 04:54:00 AM »

quote:
Originally posted by Crazylady:
Another thing about AOL is they don't allow pop3 email.
Not sure if that has anything to do with it.
But it might be an idea to mail AOL and ask them.

I tried that...a few time, when I was on there.  Their answer always was "we're working on it"
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