Greetings, monks, I am a perl novice, so forgive me my naivetee.

I have been attempting to get a "simple" form mail working from my server. I shebang, I upload ASCII, I chmod 755, but, alas, no matter what tutorial I seek or any variation I try, I end up with a server error: Premature end of script headers: mailer.pl

I am currently trying to use mailer.pl from James Marshall at http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/cgi/. My silly sample form is located at http://thrall.library.hope.edu/~dahm/sample_form.html

I do not understand the error, nor the entire script. I simply inserted my e-mail address into the appropriate place (elizabeth.dahm@hope.edu, if any one cares reply), did a whereis sendmail and thought what was all ready there was appropriate.

If you could offer me any guidance, it would be greatly appreciated.

In reply to consistent form mail error: premature end of script headers by edahm

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