Author Topic: Email signup not working....  (Read 1560 times)

gregll

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Email signup not working....
« on: June 02, 2007, 03:06:46 am »
Hello , I have a dedicated server with hostgator and it uses cpanel....

I have set up the pipe forwards for bounce.cgi and signup1.cgi

My TESTBOUNCE email works just fine.......

But signup1.cgi does not work......

I have set up the file inputs and set the permissions to 755, but it still fails..
here is the signup.cgi settings
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#!/usr/bin/perl
# ListMail signup.cgi - Subscribe by email
#
# You must configure this script for it to work.
#
# Place the script in your "public_html/cgi-bin" directory.  You will need multiple copies of
# this script with different filenames / email alias addresses if you want to add users to
# individual lists or different sets of lists.

# SET this to your ListMail URL, NO trailing slash
$listmail_url = "http://www.dimesaledollars.com/mymail";

# SET the variable $list to one of the following:

# single list
$list = '6';

# multiple lists
# $list = '1,3,2';

# parse subject into a custom field? (uncomment to enable)
# $parse_subj = 1;

# custom field for subject line data, 'user1' thru 'user10'
$parse_subj_field = 'user1';

# For multiple lists, use commas.  Each list's welcome / confirmation
# setting and email will be taken into account.

# usually works as default (may be /usr/local/bin/wget or other)
$http_program = "/usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null " . $listmail_url . "/signup.php";

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I emailed my support and this is what they said...
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Well, I see one problem immediately:
/usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null ...

The -O  flag says to take everythign being 'wgot' put it all together as one big file and write it to the filename following the -O.  /dev/null is also known as the 'black hole', it's literally a dump it in and it disappears forever file.

You will need to contact support for that script and have them provide you with a filename that doesn't disappear all your data.

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PLEASE HELP, I really need this to work.....

DW

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Email signup not working....
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2007, 04:28:51 am »
No output from the wget call is normal, but it can suppress some errors, I suppose.  If bounce.cgi works signupX.cgi should, too...  Have you tried resetting up the script(s) and alias(es)?

If you still can't get it submit your info and I'll take a look.

Regards
Dean Wiebe
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