Requirements to use TECForM

TECForM is a very flexible and configurable WWW to E-Mail gateway, but in order to work it does need some stuff to be able to work properly, it depends on the CGI specification being fully implemented by your WWW server. The following list tels you what things TECForM relies on for propper operations

CGI Tecform Requires your WWW server to be able to do CGI scripting, and it depends on the following CGI variables to be properly implemented by the WWW server you use.
- SCRIPT_NAME
- PATH_INFO
- HTTP_USER_AGENT
- HTTP_REFERER
- QUERY_STRING
- REQUEST_METHOD
- REMOTE_HOST
- SERVER_NAME
Further some WWW servers seem to handle all CGI scripts as a so called 'nph' script, expecting a full http header from the script, although TECForM does not yet work with these (buggy) servers a simple workaround will be provided in the upcoming 2.0.1 version.
Perl 5 TECForM is a CGI program written in perl, perl is an interpreted language, so in order to use it you need to have PERL installed on your system. TECForM 1.0.3 worked with version 4 of perl, but from version 2.0 of TECForM you need to use at least version 5.001.
Sendmail Unfortunately TECForM 2.0.0 still is dependend on the sendmail program (or any other program that accepts mail on its standard input and processes it like sendmail does). sendmail is available on about every unix platform, so for unix this should be no problem, if however you are using NT you are adviced to wait just a litle while, for TECForM 2.0.1 will be released shortly, and will include an internal SMTP client, taking away this need for an external program.