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From: Pat Asher <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Help with Mail Merge Needed
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:24:31 -0400
References: <c707abae0904201023j9c74350w7562f68159962438@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <c707abae0904201023j9c74350w7562f68159962438@mail.gmail.com>


At 01:23 PM 4/20/2009, Christine Murphy wrote:
>Hello,
>I am trying to learn Mail Merge. I have accessed the help pages on this and
>am understaning the HTML aspects.
>The one problem is when I try it with my own pages and information.
>http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~westwinds/tryoo1.htm is
>the page I set up to test it. Can someone look at this and the template.tmp
>file adn see where the problem is?

Hi Christine,

1) You have at least one error in your HTML (I didn't check it all)

<td><input type="text" size="35" maxlength="50" name="Name"<>/td>
should be
<td><input type="text" size="35" maxlength="50" name="Name"</td>


2) The path to your template must be a relative path -- to the script
on the server, i.e.

<form action="cgi-bin/mailmerge.cgi/~westwinds/template.tmp"
etc.

3) In your template, you have duplicate commands for
ACTION-MAIL
MULTIVALUE_FORMAT=BRACE
ESCAPE_HTML=0 (You have a typo in the first copy)
SUBJECT=Feedback and Comment.

You also have duplicate sections for OUTPUT_FORM= and MAIL_HEADER=

Also, for your TITLE= AND ADDRESS= lines to work, they must all be on
one line. Do not use line breaks or word wrap in your text editor.

Make those corrections, then let us know if you still have problems.

Pat Asher






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