Php form problem and question

I am a new web designer who is not code savey yet. Anyway
during the various sites i have designed i have used 3 different
forms that process and email it to me using a seperate php form, 1
in flash, 2 from a standard html form on a windows server. All have
been uploaded, to the site, tested and worked fine. 2 are in old
sites, one in my current site. Recently all 3 forms stopped working
and while they looked like they worked fine they no longer actually
sent anything. I had a big email arguement with my host and finally
they added this line into my php script "ini_set
("sendmail_from","[email protected]");" email address is example here
and they added another form to my site called "php4-cgi-fcgi.ini."
Then my curent form started working again. I haven't changed
anything, and of course the host never informed me of any changes.
So why did this need to be added for my form to work again? Does
this mean they upgraded to another version or something? Ihad a big
arguement with them because they refused to tell me what they did
that stopped all my forms from working, they kept acting like it
was me or my provider that caused the problem, when i am positive
we were not the problem. Any thoughts?

doing a google on "ini_set ("sendmail_from" gives a lot of
info.
summary- the form script you are using is probably not
setting a default
"FROM" email address, so the host has phpmail() reject it as
possible spam
abuse.
The .ini files the host added to your site correct the
problem. They change
values for php to use within your hosting domain.
What php script are you using to send the emails? It is
probably out of date
if it doesn't address this issue.
Off Topic: suggest never arguing with hosting support. Even
it the person at
the other end of the phone is an 18 year old drone not
earning their salt.
Move the site if needed. Develop social engineering skills to
get things
done.
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

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Kevin

Thanks, George!
I would have liked to had db_hotbackup instead of dbxml_dump/load, but, strangely, it's one of a few things that isn't working as advertised. I run a checkpoint every half hour, and db_recover still takes forever. I think dbxml_dump/load is going to work for me--except for one potential issue. If I change my mind, I will post on BDB forum.
(2) As for ceasing operations, yes, I am temporarily stopping the reads/writes, copying the dbxml/log files to another directory, and performing dbxml_dump on it.
My one potential issue is related to indexes that you mention: "dbxml_dump will copy only content/metadata and no index databases; those are recreated during dbxml_load"
Does that mean that 1) dbxml_dump will output the list of indexes and when dbxml_load is run, it will recreate them. Or 2) that there is no index info dumped and I will have to maintain the list and reindex the container after dbxml_load is done? (I'm currently having an issue with 'addIndex', asked in another thread.)
Also, the docs seem to indicate that you can dbxml_load into an existing container. Yet, when I try to do this, I get "Error: File exists". I can successfully run dbxml_load and have it create the container.
#3 is a great idea--I will incorporate it into my backup routine.
--kevin

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