strange problem..program not working through web form.

From: seemanta dutta (seemanta_18_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/06/04 

Date: 6 Feb 2004 05:31:02 -0800

Hi,
I have a simple form which when clicked mails a user via the cgi script.

But the problem is that when I run the script from the commandline it works well.
but the moment I try to do it via the form it simply fails.
here's the cgi script:(mail.pl)

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

system("cat mail.txt | /bin/mail -s hello foo\@foobar.com");

printf "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
printf "wait...\n" ;

and here is the form:(mail.html)

<html>

<p> Just click and Submit!! </p>
<form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mail.pl">
<input type="submit" name="sub_button" value="Click!" >
</form>

</html>

P.S. I have mail installed on my system and it works fine from the shell.
it does not only via the webserver.

please help,

thanks in advance,
regards,
Seemanta

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