First check that your path is correct to the sendmail. That's not the path to mine, and if you are typing this out of a book, its probably not the path your ISP has. Check.. make sure

Second, check that the user you have sending the email exists on the sever. You have admin@yourhost.com Make sure "admin" is a user, most ISP's won't allow you to send email from a non-existant account, to keep spamming down.

Third " or die" is a valid end to a program. Have it log something on the die, so you got some kind of message to refer to. Nothing is being returned, so debugging something like this will be a bear if you don't get some type of responce from the program that everything went well, or what might have gone wrong.

I rarely use || die on cgi's .. I have them log or return an error code. This keeps things nice and simple to maintain later.

Lastly.. I don't think those single quotes should be there. I'm not sure why they are there, and I would try removing them. Change 
print MAIL "Name: $formdata{'name'}\n";  
print MAIL "email: $formdata{'email'}\n";
print MAIL "message: $formdata{'message'}\n";

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to this 
print MAIL "Name: $formdata{name}\n"; 
print MAIL "email: $formdata{email}\n";
print MAIL "message: $formdata{message}\n";

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Hope that helps.

Glenn H.

In reply to Re: Contact Form 2 by webadept
in thread Contact Form 2 by venimfrogtongue

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