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How good are you guys?
Ok, I'm new to this stuff but just spent 2 hours searching the boards for an answer to this:

Basically when I try and send someone an e-mail informing them their site is listed I get this error message. And before you say, yes I have set up my links.cfg correctly using only my ISPs SMTP server.

Anyway here's the error message. Counting on you guys!

CGI ERROR
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Error Message : Unable to send addition message. Reason:
Script Location : D:\webs\WebSites\celebhoo.com\cgi-bin\admin\admin.pl
Perl Version : 5.00502

Form Variables
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2 : validate
Category-2 : Actors_and_Actresses/Cameron_Diaz
Contact Email-2 : webmaster@celebhoo.com
Contact Name-2 : Geoff Bowen
Date-2 : 18-Jul-1999
Description-2 :
Hits-2 : 0
ID-2 : 2
Rating-2 : 0
ReceiveMail-2 : Yes
Title-2 : Undeniable Cam
URL-2 : http://www.celebritypalace.com/bespoke/brewster/index.html
Votes-2 : 0
db : links
isNew-2 : No
isPopular-2 : No
reason-2 :
validate_records : Validate/Delete Selected Link(s)

Environment Variables
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COMPUTERNAME : WWW2
COMSPEC : C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
CONTENT_LENGTH : 413
CONTENT_TYPE : application/x-www-form-urlencoded
GATEWAY_INTERFACE : CGI/1.1
HTTPS : off
HTTP_ACCEPT : image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/msword, application/vnd.ms-excel, */*
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-gb
HTTP_CONNECTION : Keep-Alive
HTTP_CONTENT_LENGTH : 413
HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE : application/x-www-form-urlencoded
HTTP_HOST : www.celebhoo.com
HTTP_REFERER : http://www.celebhoo.com/cgi-bin/admin/admin.pl?db=links&validate_form=1
HTTP_USER_AGENT : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
INCLUDE : C:\Program Files\MTS\Include
INSTANCE_ID : 889
LIB : C:\Program Files\MTS\Lib
LOCAL_ADDR : 199.93.70.6
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS: 2
OS : Windows_NT
OS2LIBPATH : C:\WINNT\system32\os2\dll;
PATH : C:\Perl;C:\Perl\bin;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\Program Files\MTS;C:\Public;
PATHEXT : .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.JS
PATH_INFO : /cgi-bin/admin/admin.pl
PATH_TRANSLATED : D:\webs\WebSites\celebhoo.com\cgi-bin\admin\admin.pl
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE: x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER: x86 Family 6 Model 3 Stepping 3, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL : 6
PROCESSOR_REVISION : 0303
PWD : D:/webs/WebSites/celebhoo.com/cgi-bin/admin
REMOTE_ADDR : 212.49.227.77
REMOTE_HOST : 212.49.227.77
REQUEST_METHOD : POST
SCRIPT_NAME : /cgi-bin/admin/admin.pl
SERVER_NAME : www.celebhoo.com
SERVER_PORT : 80
SERVER_PORT_SECURE : 0
SERVER_PROTOCOL : HTTP/1.1
SERVER_SOFTWARE : Microsoft-IIS/4.0
SYSTEMDRIVE : C:
SYSTEMROOT : C:\WINNT
TEMP : c:\temp
TMP : c:\temp
USERPROFILE : C:\WINNT\Profiles\Default User
WINDIR : C:\WINNT
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Re: How good are you guys? In reply to
Sounds like a chmod problem to me. I could be wrong though.
Try setting your permission to 777.

Hope I helped a little,
Chet
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>>>You need to change the permissions of the file to the following: (You can change permissions on NT! ).
DOMAIN\IUSR_MACHINE = RW
DOMAIN\IWAM_MACHINE = RWX
SYSTEM = Full Control

RW = Read, Write
RWX = Read, Write, Execute
>>>>

Where about are these files? I'm not hosting the site on my own server and therefore don't think I have access to these files?

Here is the SMTP set up, and yes I have tried several of my ISPs and asked them too.

# Email Options
# --------------------------------------------------------
# NOTE: Be sure to edit the text of the message. It can be found
# in the templates directory: email-add.txt, email-del.txt and
# email-mod.txt respectively.

# Set only ONE of either $db_mail_path which should go to a
# mail program like sendmail, or $db_smtp_server which will use
# a SMTP server. Do not set both at once!

# PATH of sendmail. # SMTP Server
$db_mail_path = ''; $db_smtp_server = 'smtp.screaming.net';

# Email address of the administrator. BE SURE TO SET!
$db_admin_email = 'info@celebhoo.com';

# Notify visitors automatically when their links are validated?
$db_email_add = 1;

# Notify visitors automatically when their links are modified?
$db_email_modify = 0;

# Log all outgoing messages? Put the full path to a logfile and make sure it
# exists and is writeable (chmod 666 -rw-rw-rw-). This logfile can get pretty
# big!
$db_mailer_log = '';
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I'm using an NT server so therefore there is no CHMOD option. Can anyone help?
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Can you post the setting you have for the smtp server? Have you confirmed with your ISP that it is correct?
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You need to change the permissions of the file to the following: (You can change permissions on NT! Smile).

DOMAIN\IUSR_MACHINE = RW
DOMAIN\IWAM_MACHINE = RWX
SYSTEM = Full Control

RW = Read, Write
RWX = Read, Write, Execute

You can do this via FTP (QFTP or AceFTP) or use your NT Explorer to change the permissions.

Also, Bobsie has a good suggestion...post your SMTP configurations in the script, not the error message.

Regards,

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