FAO Dan Vendel (Tutorials?)

Hey Dan,

Where's your tutorials gone? I looked on the new site and they dont
appear to be up anywhere and the old site is now no longer.

Osgood wrote:

Hey Dan,

Where's your tutorials gone? I looked on the new site and they dont
appear to be up anywhere and the old site is now no longer.

I dumped them when rewamped the site.
Have them, though, and will put them online in due course but I'm
swamped right now.
Which one did you have in mind? Maybe I can mail it....

--
Dan Vendel - *GOF*
"Eagles may soar, free and proud, but weasels never get sucked into jet
engines."
Contact: http://www.proformica.com/contact.shtml
Call or chat me via Skype ID: danvendel, but DON'T ask questions that
you can ask here! (get Skype at http://skype.com)

I was just thinking about the formmail one which might help will a
recent post.

They were asking how to set the script up but I cant remember if your
tutorial covers that or not.



Dan Vendel *GOF* wrote:

Osgood wrote:

Hey Dan,

Where's your tutorials gone? I looked on the new site and they dont
appear to be up anywhere and the old site is now no longer.





I dumped them when rewamped the site.
Have them, though, and will put them online in due course but I'm
swamped right now.
Which one did you have in mind? Maybe I can mail it....

Osgood wrote:

They were asking how to set the script up but I cant remember if your
tutorial covers that or not.

No, it doesn't. The script comes with samples and instructions so
extensive that I haven't seen anything else coming even close. If
whoever just spend some time to go through the files (actually, all you
need to know is included in the formmail.pl file. All you have to do is
to scroll down about 4/5).

--
Dan Vendel - *GOF*
"Eagles may soar, free and proud, but weasels never get sucked into jet
engines."
Contact: http://www.proformica.com/contact.shtml
Call or chat me via Skype ID: danvendel, but DON'T ask questions that
you can ask here! (get Skype at http://skype.com)

Dan Vendel *GOF* wrote:

No, it doesn't. The script comes with samples and instructions so
extensive that I haven't seen anything else coming even close. If
whoever just spend some time to go through the files (actually, all you
need to know is included in the formmail.pl file. All you have to do is
to scroll down about 4/5).

ok that's what I thought. Im not sure they got the "read me"
instructions as the script was already installed on the server.

Its most probably in their FAQ page though.

Thanks.

ooops didnt read that very carefully. You say its already in the
formmail.pl. I dont think it makes it very clear depending on which
formmail.pl you got of course. The 'read me' file covers it better from
what I remember. I havent used it for some time.



Osgood wrote:

Dan Vendel *GOF* wrote:

No, it doesn't. The script comes with samples and instructions so
extensive that I haven't seen anything else coming even close. If
whoever just spend some time to go through the files (actually, all
you need to know is included in the formmail.pl file. All you have to
do is to scroll down about 4/5).


ok that's what I thought. Im not sure they got the "read me"
instructions as the script was already installed on the server.

Its most probably in their FAQ page though.

Thanks.

Osgood wrote:

ooops didnt read that very carefully. You say its already in the
formmail.pl. I dont think it makes it very clear depending on which
formmail.pl you got of course. The 'read me' file covers it better from
what I remember. I havent used it for some time.

I assume we're talking about the NMS formmail script:
http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml
In that, the second half of the actual script doc is a huge instruction.
Probably, they did that so that no one can have the excuse of losing the
readme files.

Frankly, there are so few parameters that it's virtually impossible to
miss even if you're a newbie. The thing that *can* screw up, though, is
the paths to the servers sendmail function or the perl module. But
that's something between the user and his host to fix. No one here can
help there.

--
Dan Vendel - *GOF*
"Eagles may soar, free and proud, but weasels never get sucked into jet
engines."
Contact: http://www.proformica.com/contact.shtml
Call or chat me via Skype ID: danvendel, but DON'T ask questions that
you can ask here! (get Skype at http://skype.com)

Not sure. Formmail comes in a few versions and from a few different places.

I havent read through the file you mentioned but you obviously know it
well. If you say there is enough info in there to get it working that's
good enough for me.

I suspect what the poster is using may well be a variation on that
version with limited information in the actual script file istelf.

I'am sure they will sort it out one way or another.

Cheers


Dan Vendel *GOF* wrote:

I assume we're talking about the NMS formmail script:
http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml
In that, the second half of the actual script doc is a huge instruction.
Probably, they did that so that no one can have the excuse of losing the
readme files.

Frankly, there are so few parameters that it's virtually impossible to
miss even if you're a newbie. The thing that *can* screw up, though, is
the paths to the servers sendmail function or the perl module. But
that's something between the user and his host to fix. No one here can
help there.