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If you are creating your own website you often want to include a Contact Form that will email you the results of whatever was filled into that form.

Using FrontPage it was easy - it just worked. Now that FrontPage is no longer supported by modern webservers since Microsoft dropped support for it in 2004 many are left wondering how they can get their contact form to work again. Here is the solution. Download and read the instructions included within the zipped file. You will see that you need to upload a single file to the "cgi-bin" folder and within that file you will need to edit a settings such as your email address. You wil also need to edit your old form and replace a line with a new line that references the file you uploaded instead of the old line that used to call the Frontpage extensions. The rest of the form can remain intact without any further editnig which will then retain the same look and information it did before.

So here is an excerpt from the site that we recommend.
http://www.scriptarchive.com/nms.html

 

What is nms?!
nms is a project that was started by the London Perl Mongers. Its goal is to provide drop-in replacements for the scripts found at Matt's Script Archive. These scripts have been developed from the ground up to emulate the behavior of Matt's free Perl scripts, with the caveat that you must run Perl 5.004_04 or later. Almost everyone does.

Matt's Script Archive does not provide support for or guarantee the quality of nms scripts. We are pleased to offer our users the choice of which version they would like to download, and in many cases the nms code is better written and more secure. Their code is released under the GPL and Artistic License allowing us to offer it here.
Why nms?!

Matt's Script Archive was one of the first sites on the Internet to offer Free CGI scripts that were well-documented and easy to install. These scripts were posted to the web beginning in 1995 when I was still in high school. Having no formal programming education or experience at that time, I released the code as I learned, hoping others would find it useful.

Over the years, this software has been downloaded millions of times and FormMail has become the most widely used CGI script on the Internet. Most of the scripts at Matt's Script Archive ceased to be updated after 1996, with the exception of major security flaws or bugs. This certainly did not deter from their continued use as thousands of people continue to visit and download the scripts daily.


Download nms Programs

Matt's Script Archive provides the following files from the nms Project for your download. They are distributed under the GPL or Artistic License. Information on support or contributing to the nms Project can be found within these files:

 

nms FormMail download

Replaces: FormMail v1.92 @ MSA Free - v3.14c1 - August 11, 2004


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