Would you be willing to use a different mailer? The nms projects has a well-written and secure form mail program with documentation and user support. Looking at Mr. Marshall's program, it's not the sort of thing I'd want on my server. (It's written in Perl 4, which has been obsolete for nearly a decade.)

The error message you received indicates that the program died (or gave an error message) before it could send anything back to the web browser. It's not immediately obvious why this is, but fixing the issues with the code would take longer than recommending a better starting point.

In reply to Re: consistent form mail error: premature end of script headers by chromatic
in thread consistent form mail error: premature end of script headers by edahm

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