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other CGI problem

     
     Hi,
     
     I have also a problem with CGI scripts in general :
     
     I red all the threads about that subject without
     finding an answer to my pb.
     
     My script is a "sendmail" script, it normally send a form
     to me by E-mail. it's been written by professionals (as 
     I don't know anything about Perl).
     
     I installed Perl for Windows 95 on my machine, tested it,
     it works well with the "hello.pl" script.
     
     I also installed a "sendmail" program for Windows which
     works excatly the same way that the Unix version.
     I also tried it and it works fine.
     
     Then I made a form where I give the name of my Perl
     script in the "ACTION=" tag. I also defined some
     hidden fields (mailto and subject) to give the script
     the appropriate parameters.
     
     Here's the error I got from the server :
     
     500 Internal Server Error 
     
     The server encountered an internal error while processing this 
     request.
     
     The following error messages were logged during this request: 
     
     
     [Wed Oct 21 14:17:42 1998 GMT] CGI: Error reading response headers 
     from CGI program.
     Start of command line is 'c:\pi3web\cgi-bin\perl\bin\perl 
     C:\PI3WEB\Cgi-Bin\mailform.cgi '.
     
     
     I checked all the configuration parameters in config.pi3.
     I don't understand what happens, I suppose there's something 
     in the script that does not work fine, but as I don't know Perl...
     
     Here's the script, it's a bit complicated but I hope you'lle be able
     to tell me what's wrong. Thanx for any help.
     
     
     
     Laurent.
     
     P.S.: I'm on an Intranet but I work locally for the moment.
           My computer uses Windows 95.
     
     ---------------------------------------------
     
     
!/cgi-bin/perl

# mailform.cgi

$MAIL="/cgi-bin/sendmail -t";

#sendmail is installed in C:\PI3WEB\CGI-BIN

use CGI;
$\="\n";

$req=new CGI;
print $req->header;

# THE MAIN EVENT
# -------------------
%fields=&read_fields;
&send_form;
&print_thanks_page;
exit(0);


# SUBROUTINES
# -------------------

sub read_fields{
  my(%fields);
  foreach $f ($req->param){
    $name=&clean_name($f);
    $fields{$f}{name}=$name;
    $value=&clean_value($f);
    $fields{$f}{value}=$value;
  }
  return(%fields);
}

sub clean_name{
  local($f)=shift;
  $f=~s/^F\d+_//;
  $f=~s/_/ /g;
  return($f);
}

sub clean_value{
  local($f)=shift;
  local(@val,$val);
  @val=$req->param($f);
  $#val-- unless $val[-1]=~/\S/;
  $val=join(" - ",@val);
  return($val);
}

sub send_form{
  return unless $fields{'mailto'}{'value'}=~/^[\w-]+@(modicon)\.com$/;
#MODICON.COM is the name of my SMTP server.
        


  open(MAIL,"| $MAIL") or error("can't send mail");
        
  print MAIL "To: $fields{'mailto'}{'value'}";
  print MAIL "From: $fields{'Name'}{'value'} <$fields{'E-mail'}{'value'}>";
  print MAIL "Reply-To: $fields{'E-mail'}{'value'}";
  print MAIL "Subject: $fields{'subject'}{'value'}";
  print MAIL "";

# the fields NAME, E-MAIL, SUBJECT and MAILTO exist in my html page.

        
  $\="";
  $,=" - ";
  
  foreach $f (sort keys %fields){
    next unless $f=~/^F\d/;
    if ($fields{$f}{name} =~ /Comment/i) {
      print MAIL "\n";
      print MAIL "$fields{$f}{value}";
      print MAIL "\n";
    }
    else{
      print MAIL "$fields{$f}{name}: ";
      print MAIL ($fields{$f}{value} ? $fields{$f}{value} : 
@{$fields{$f}{'values'}});
      print MAIL "\n";
    }
  }
        
  $,="";
  close(MAIL);
}

sub print_thanks_page{
  $\="";
  print <<"EOM";
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Thanks for your input</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000">

<h2>Thanks for your input!</h2>

Thanks for taking the time to fill out our form. If necessary, we will contact 
you at the e-mail address you provided, $fields{'E-mail'}{'value'}.

</BODY>
</HTML>
EOM
}