Formmail is giving a 500 error

[KatieBuller]

Formmail is giving a 500 error, how do I fix this?

Why is it giving this error?

I ran fixeverything and its still not working.

[sparek-3]

What are the permissions to /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/formmail.pl ?

[KatieBuller]

# ll /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/formmail.pl
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 964876 May 29 08:43 /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/formmail.pl*

[KatieBuller]

Is that correct? Why was the file last updated on 5/29?

[sparek-3]

Yea, that is correct. When do you get the 500 error message? What does the error log say? The error log should be in /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log

[CamronFry]

I am having the same problem, my error log says:
[Sun Jun 5 18:59:45 2005] [error] [client 69.209.xx.xx Premature end of script headers: /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/FormMail.cgi

How can fix this?

[sparek-3]

Do you have SuExec enabled on your server? Are the permissions and ownership of FormMail.cgi set correctly?

It should be set to 755 and owned by root:wheel

What is the md5sum of the FormMail.cgi binary?

74b51d2bc2a3d40006c4b3e77b649344 FormMail.cgi

I have never had any of these problems with FormMail. As a last resort you can try deleting or moving the formmail binaries from /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys and doing a cpanel update. This should copy new formmail binaries over to your server with the correct permissions and settings.