224568 - Sendmail forms fail in Mozilla and Firebird

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mike West]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

A number of forms use sendmail via scripts such as Formmail.pl. When clicking
the submit button on such forms I see:
Application Error

An error has occurred in the program

Can't open /usr/sbin/sendmail -t 

Here is the FORM tag from one such page:
<form method="POST" action="/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl">

This problem also occurs in Firebird 0.7 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7). It does not occur in Internet
Explorer

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find a page that invokes sendmail such as http://www.boycottcbs.com/boycott.html
2. 
3.

Actual Results:  
Application Error

An error has occurred in the program

Can't open /usr/sbin/sendmail -t 

Here is the FORM tag from one such page:
<form method="POST" action="/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl">

Expected Results:  
Display another page

I've not seen this happen with pages that use ASP or PHP (ie, the PHP mail()
command).

Comment 1

[Bob Firth]

This should be under Browser, not Firebird since it is for both mozilla & firebird.

This WFM. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031024
Firebird/0.7+ (and mozilla 1.4.1)

mozilla does not execute the perl script, it only sends the form data to it (via
POST in this example).

If this does not work in mozilla/firebird but does work in IE it might be
because something is not being sent properly in form submission, and maybe the
script is not doing enough error checking? But it WFM, so I doubt that's the
problem.

Resolving WORKSFORME. Please reopen (and move to Browser->HTML: Form Submission)
if you can still see the problem with the latest nightly build installed in a
new directory with a fresh profile.