Re: [sendmail] v. [writefile]

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2000


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 30125
interpreted = N
texte = I use SIMS everywhere except on WebCat machines. SIMS crashes my ecommerce server with Mac Authorize hub every time an order is placed, causing duplicate order verifications. . .Emailer doesn't. I have tried the switch three times with the same results. YMMV ml >on 4/5/2000 10:10 AM, Doug Hardman at doug@silvercreek.net wrote: > >> Gang, >> >> On one of our sites, the feedback page uses the [sendmail] tag to send the >> correspondence to the site manager. When the user fills out the email >> address field on the page, WebCat places that value into the from header >> of the email. >> >> If the end-user fills out the email address incorrectly, the mail does not >> go through. I'm figuring that Emailer sees that the from address is not >> valid, and dumps the email off into a black hole. >> >> QUESTON: >> >> If I use [writefile], will that force the email off? >> Does anyone else have a solution for this? >> >> Thanks for your time... >> >If you were to look at the list archive you'd see many discussions of this. >Emailer and bad to and from addresses can be a problem. I'll try to be the >first to tell you (before Ken and a half dozen others jump on this) that you >should take a look at replacing Emailer with the excellent, free SIMS. >http://www.stalker.com/ . Then, do a search of the list archive for SIMS >and you should be able to get set up with ease. Since I switched from >Emailer to SIMS I've never run into the email blackouts that used to occur >when emailer didn't like a particular address. > >Mike > > >------------------------------------------------------------- >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to -- \|/ (. .) _________________________ooO_(_)_Ooo_____________________________ Mark Lacas mailto:mark@lacas.com Virtual Loft / Seattle HarborCam: http://www.loftcam.com/ SeattleStuff WebCommerce Community: http://www.seattlestuff.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: [sendmail] v. [writefile] (Mike Davis 2000)
  2. Re: [sendmail] v. [writefile] (Glenn Busbin 2000)
  3. Re: [sendmail] v. [writefile] (Webcat 2000)
  4. Re: [sendmail] v. [writefile] (Nicolas Verhaeghe 2000)
  5. Re: [sendmail] v. [writefile] (Nicolas Verhaeghe 2000)
  6. Re: [sendmail] v. [writefile] (Kenneth Grome 2000)
  7. Re: [sendmail] v. [writefile] (Anup setty 2000)
  8. Re: [sendmail] v. [writefile] (Mike Davis 2000)
  9. [sendmail] v. [writefile] (Doug Hardman 2000)
I use SIMS everywhere except on WebCat machines. SIMS crashes my ecommerce server with Mac Authorize hub every time an order is placed, causing duplicate order verifications. . .Emailer doesn't. I have tried the switch three times with the same results. YMMV ml >on 4/5/2000 10:10 AM, Doug Hardman at doug@silvercreek.net wrote: > >> Gang, >> >> On one of our sites, the feedback page uses the [sendmail] tag to send the >> correspondence to the site manager. When the user fills out the email >> address field on the page, WebCat places that value into the from header >> of the email. >> >> If the end-user fills out the email address incorrectly, the mail does not >> go through. I'm figuring that Emailer sees that the from address is not >> valid, and dumps the email off into a black hole. >> >> QUESTON: >> >> If I use [writefile], will that force the email off? >> Does anyone else have a solution for this? >> >> Thanks for your time... >> >If you were to look at the list archive you'd see many discussions of this. >Emailer and bad to and from addresses can be a problem. I'll try to be the >first to tell you (before Ken and a half dozen others jump on this) that you >should take a look at replacing Emailer with the excellent, free SIMS. >http://www.stalker.com/ . Then, do a search of the list archive for SIMS >and you should be able to get set up with ease. Since I switched from >Emailer to SIMS I've never run into the email blackouts that used to occur >when emailer didn't like a particular address. > >Mike > > >------------------------------------------------------------- >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to -- \|/ (. .) _________________________ooO_(_)_Ooo_____________________________ Mark Lacas mailto:mark@lacas.com Virtual Loft / Seattle HarborCam: http://www.loftcam.com/ SeattleStuff WebCommerce Community: http://www.seattlestuff.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Webcat

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