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Timothy Craig

April 14, 2004
03:30 PM 		Sendmail form
I'm trying to set up an online registration form for an upcoming club event, is there any way that I could use the form sendmail from this page so that people don't have to be using an email client to register?

http://www.brandeis.edu/its/comment_question/?web=itsITS&subject=Feedback%20on%20/ITS/WebHome

Thanks
Steven Karel Administrator

April 14, 2004
03:41:07 PM 		I believe that the support method for adding a form to your webpage is to use Soupermail -- search this web forum or the Brandeis website for "soupermail". I know I've seen (and maybe helped debug) a set of instructions for using it but I can't find them right this moment.
Ryan Williams

April 14, 2004
03:47:45 PM 		The online docs are located at http://soupermail.sourceforge.net/. I have added sample html below ( obviously you will need to add text fields and close the form tag ).

<form method="POST" action="http://www.brandeis.edu/cgi-bin/soupermail.pl">

<input type="hidden" name="SoupermailConf" value="/your_directory/your_config_file">
David Wisniewski Administrator

April 14, 2004
04:00:56 PM 		Soupermail documentation
Web Services has documentation on how to use Soupermail:

http://www.brandeis.edu/webservices/howto/soupermail/

David Wisniewski Administrator

April 14, 2004
04:09:33 PM 		response to registration
You might also consider using the 'workshop' tool that Web Services developed and ITS expanded. This tool allows for registering spaces for an event. Ryan can explain it...
Rich Graves

April 14, 2004
04:31:54 PM 		How many registrations are you looking at?

There's quite a bit of administrative overhead for "workshop," so if you can handle the email volume and don't really need proper "booking," just do the soupermail thing on your own.

Rich Graves

April 14, 2004
04:34:44 PM 		Response to soupermail
In the club case, you'd be targeting http://people.brandeis.edu/cgi-bin/soupermail.pl

You absolutely need a SoupermailConf file because otherwise soupermail becomes an open spam relay.

Timothy Craig

April 14, 2004
04:37:52 PM 		Response to response to registration
Hopefully about 100.

I keep getting a "these are not the file you are looking for" error when I hit submit on my form.

http://people.brandeis.edu/~timcraig/pre.html is the form, and
http://people.brandeis.edu/~timcraig/myconfig.txt is the configuration file...

David Wisniewski Administrator

April 14, 2004
04:41:05 PM 		Bad code: you have not opened your closed quotes at the action line:

<form method="POST" action=http://people.brandeis.edu/cgi-bin/soupermail.pl">

[Edited by a moderator on 2004-04-14]
Timothy Craig

April 14, 2004
04:43:48 PM 		Always the little things, thanks
Matthew Sachs

April 27, 2004
01:49:57 AM 		Documentation Suggestion
The documentation at http://www.brandeis.edu/webservices/howto/soupermail/ should probably mention that you want http://yourwebserver/cgi-bin/soupermail.pl, e.g. people. for J. Random Student, I was helping a user today who ran into that issue.



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