eMail from cgi

[dbrooksne]

I've been sending eMail from a Web-based HyperCard system successfully.

After last year's RevCon West I started making a SECOND conversion of my HC materials. The first was a simple port to RunRev; the current uses Revolution cgi scripts and xml files.

I've used the libSmtp253.rev stack as a Library and written a test stack that readily sends e-mail. When I try to use the same scripting and the same library from a cgi, it fails. I'm a journeyman scripter. As I review the script of the libSmtp253.rev, it does not strike me as doing any of those things that shut down cgi scripts (write to a fiedd, put, go to a cd, etc.)

Any suggestions will be helpful. This is NOT an all purpose tool, by the way. I always send the same message to a student's mentor indicating that student essays need an evaluation. Right now, the number of mentors is just three.

[FourthWorld]

I've used the libSmtp253.rev stack as a Library and written a test stack that readily sends e-mail. When I try to use the same scripting and the same library from a cgi, it fails.

When it fails, does it give an error message? Is "the result" empty?

[dbrooksne]

I'm not sure one can look at 'the result' in a cgi operation. I guess I could try to write that to a file, but I'm guessing it won't work.

[FourthWorld]

I'm not sure one can look at 'the result' in a cgi operation. I guess I could try to write that to a file, but I'm guessing it won't work.

You could have it return the result so the client calling it can display it. You can also write it to a file into any directory where the CGI has write permissions. I've found some servers won't let me write to the same directory as the CGI itself, but I can to a sub-folder within it or to one a level up.