Documentation
MAILMAN 100 MBS Ethernet Mailer
System Requirements
- Unix or Lynyx operating system
- Perl 5
- Telnet Access
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 zip archive on your desktop using a
program like WINZIP. If you don't have such a program then download WINZIP FREE from SHAREWARE.COM.
- After you have unpacked the 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.
File Locations
The following files will be uploaded into a
SPECIAL HTML DIRECTORY which htaccess will control
- bulkemailer.cgi
- message.txt
- sent.list
- mailinglist.sorted
Configure the .cgi files
bulkemailer.cgi lines 19-21
$SENDMAIL='/usr/lib/sendmail';
$subject = "Hello Superscripts
Member";
Point to sendmail on your system
File Access Permissions
File access permissions must be set correctly
for this program to run. The table below lists the permissions of each file which are to
be set by the unix command ( chmod ) used to set the correct access permissions. You must
set the access permissions for each of these files.
CHMOD 755 |
CHMOD
777 |
bulkemailer.cgi |
mailinglist.sorted sent.list
message.txt |
Paste your formatted
email body into message.txt
After composing your message in your favorite
text editor simply upload your message as ASCII data (text only file) as message.txt
Explanation of utilities
- mailing.sorted is an alphabetically sorted
mailing list with duplicates removed.
- message.txt is the BODY of your email message
- sent.list is generated after running
bulkemailer.cgi and contains the addresses of everyone that bulkemailer.cgi has emailed
Send your list
To send your message simply execute the
script from the telnet prompt
perl bulkemailer.cgi