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How do I edit my FormMail - Form Mail?

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To edit your formmail.pl, here is what you need to do

First, you should use a text editor like "notepad" on a PC or "TextEdit" on a Macintosh. You don't want to use wordpad because that will change it to a dos file and then it wont work at all (file manager does this at times also, so be aware of this). So download the formmail from your server (it should already be in the cgi-bin) and open it in notepad to edit it.

This is the line you need to edit:

@referers = ('scriptarchive.com','209.196.21.3');

Change that to:

@referers = ('mydomain.com','209.196.21.3');

Where "mydomain.com" is your domain. Don't worry about the IP address.

Once you do that, you can save the formmail.pl file and upload it back to the server.

Then you will need to edit the form on your site where people fill out information to be sent by the FormMail script. You need to add a "hidden" element with the following information:

Here is what it should look like:

<input type="hidden" name="recipient" value=" \n email@domain.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ">

Where " \n email@domain.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it " is your email address (on your domain).

Upload that file to your server and you should be good to go.

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