Documentation
AUTORESPONDER MULTILEVEL:
System Requirements
- Perl 5
- Sendmail
- Catchall Email Address
- Crontab
- .forward
Preliminaries
- Determine the path to PERL 5 on your web
server host. Note that some web hosting companies run both PERL 4 and PERL 5.
Make ABSOLUTELY sure you are not setting this up under PERL 4. Ask your
administrator if you are not sure.
- Unpack the tar archive on your desktop using a
program that unpacks UNIX TAR ARCHIVES. If you don't have such a program then download
WINZIP FREE from SHAREWARE.COM.
- After you have unpacked the TAR archive you
will have a collection of folders and files on your desktop. Now you have to do some
basic editing of each of these files (or at least some of them). Use a text editor
such as wordpad, notepad, BBEdit, simpletext, or teachtext to edit the files. These
are NOT WORD PROCESSOR DOCUMENTS they are just simple TEXT files so don't save them as
word processor documents or save them with extentions such as .txt or they will NOT WORK.
Note that there may be a some files inside of folders which are "blank".
This is normal.
Preparing the CGI scripts
Define Path To PERL 5
The first step is to open up each and every
file that has a .cgi extention and edit line number one of each script. Each of the
cgi scripts is written in perl 5. For your scripts to run they must know where perl 5 is
installed on your web server. The path to perl 5 is defined to a cgi script in the first
line of the file. In each of the cgi scripts the first line of code looks something like
this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
If the path to perl 5 on your web server is
different from /usr/bin/perl you must edit the first line of each cgi script to reflect
the correct path. If the path to perl 5 is the same no changes are necessary. If you do
not know the path to perl 5 ask the webmaster or system administrator at your server site.
Configure configure.cgi
configure.cgi
This is where the variables are set.
There are 2 copies. Upload one copy into /cgi-bin/autoresponder and another into
/cgi-bin/autoresponder/admin
$adminusername =
"adminusername";
$adminpassword =
"adminpassword";
$respondermax = "10";
$webmasterurl =
"http://www.yourdomain.com/autoresponder/webmasters/";
$basedir =
"/full/path/to/cgi-bin/autoresponder";
$adminemail =
"foo\@yourdomain.com";
$currentmessagestart = "0";
$maildomain =
"yourdomain.com";
$mailprogram='/usr/sbin/sendmail';
$cgibasedir =
"/cgi-bin/autoresponder";
- $adminusername is the username to login to
admin panel
- $adminpassword is the password to login to
admin panel
- $respondermax is the # of autoresponders you
wish to give to each person that signs up
- $webmasterurl is the URL to the webmaster
login page (index.html)
- $basedir is the FULL PATH TO THE
/cgi-bin/autoresponder directory
- $adminemail is your email address
- $currentmessagestart - leave this at 0
- $maildomain is the domain name of your mail
server (EG: domain.com NOT mail.domain.com or whatever)
- $mailprogram is path to sendmail
- $cgibasedir is RELATIVE URI to
/cgi-bin/autoresponder (just leave this alone)
send.pl and recieve.pl
Inside both of these scripts you have to set
the FULL path to configure.cgi near the top of the script
Uploading the Files
- Create directory inside cgi-bin called
autoresponder (/cgi-bin/autoresponder)
- Create directory
(/cgi-bin/autoresponder/admin)
- Upload corresponding .cgi and .pl files as
they unpack and chmod all to 755
- Create directories
/cgi-bin/autoresponder/users and /cgi-bin/autoresponder/data - chmod to 777 or 666
- Upload any .txt files into their corresponding
directories and chmod to 777 or 666
- Find the "dot.forward" file and
rename to .forward
- Edit the .forward file so it contains the FULL
path to "receive.pl"
- Upload the .forward file into your USERS
directory that catches the email for your domain (it's root directory)
Crontab send.pl
- Create a crontab file to execute send.pl once
per day at midnight
