PD also works with two other modes:
Note: You do not need to install any additional modules to run PD. All required modules are included.
After uploading the files, make sure the permissions are set correctly.
/cgi-bin/pd/pdglobal.txt and set the appropriate values.http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/pd/pdadmin.cgihttp://www.ginini.com.au/pd/images/bird.gif/
http://www.ginini.com.au/pd/images/bird.gif the short URL would be /pd/images/bird.gif
/pd/midi the real location (full
directory path) could be something like /home/ginini/htdocs/postcard-direct/midiThe full directory path is displayed in the diagnostics section if an error occurs.
To unpack the gzip tar file, type:
gzip -dc postcard-direct.tar.gz | tar xvf -
To unzip the ZIP file, type:
unzip postcard-direct.zip
or use best to WinZIP.
This will create two top level directories:
pd - where the images, midi and html files exist.
cgi-bin/pd - where the scripts, admin and configuration files exist.
Copy the pd directory to the directory where your web documents exist.
Copy the pd directory from cgi-bin/pd to the directory where your CGI scripts exist. In most cases this will be your cgi-bin directory. Other locations maybe cgi-local or scripts.
IMPORTANT - When you FTP the files to your web server, make sure that only the graphics and midi files are transfered in binary mode, all other files should be transfered in ASCII mode. If you fail to do this, it will most likely cause the script to fail. Also note that the Auto setting on FTP clients such as WS-FTP is not always reliable.
There are two sets of permissions that need to be set depending on how you are going to manage PD.
If you are going to administer PD via the pdadmin menu interface, you will need to set the following permissions:
/cgi-bin/pd (755) /cgi-bin/pd/admin (777) /cgi-bin/pd/admin/* (666) /cgi-bin/pd/logs (777) /cgi-bin/pd/cache (777) /cgi-bin/pd/configs (777) /cgi-bin/pd/configs/* (666) /cgi-bin/pd/modules (755) /cgi-bin/pd/modules/* (644) /cgi-bin/pd/stylesheets (777) /cgi-bin/pd/stylesheets/* (666) /cgi-bin/pd/designs (777) /cgi-bin/pd/designs/* (777) /cgi-bin/pd/designs/*/* (666) /cgi-bin/pd/lists (777) /cgi-bin/pd/lists/* (777) /cgi-bin/pd/lists/*/* (666) /cgi-bin/pd/templates (777) /cgi-bin/pd/templates/* (777) /cgi-bin/pd/templates/*/* (666) /cgi-bin/pd/pdglobal.txt (644) /cgi-bin/pd/pdadmin.cgi (755) /cgi-bin/pd/pd.cgi (755) /cgi-bin/pd/pdedit.cgi (755)
/pd (755) /pd/help (755) /pd/midi (755) /pd/midi/* (644) /pd/images (755) /pd/images/* (644) /pd/postcards (777)
If you are going to administer PD by FTPing the files to and from your PC, then you can use the following (more restrictive) permissions:
/cgi-bin/pd (755) /cgi-bin/pd/admin (755) /cgi-bin/pd/admin/* (644) /cgi-bin/pd/logs (777) /cgi-bin/pd/cache (777) /cgi-bin/pd/configs (755) /cgi-bin/pd/configs/* (644) /cgi-bin/pd/modules (755) /cgi-bin/pd/modules/* (644) /cgi-bin/pd/stylesheets (755) /cgi-bin/pd/stylesheets/* (644) /cgi-bin/pd/designs (755) /cgi-bin/pd/designs/* (755) /cgi-bin/pd/designs/*/* (644) /cgi-bin/pd/lists (755) /cgi-bin/pd/lists/* (755) /cgi-bin/pd/lists/*/* (644) /cgi-bin/pd/templates (755) /cgi-bin/pd/templates/* (755) /cgi-bin/pd/templates/*/* (644) /cgi-bin/pd/pdglobal.txt (644) /cgi-bin/pd/pdadmin.cgi (755) /cgi-bin/pd/pd.cgi (755) /cgi-bin/pd/pdedit.cgi (755)
/pd (755) /pd/help (755) /pd/midi (755) /pd/midi/* (644) /pd/images (755) /pd/images/* (644) /pd/postcards (777)
If you are not familar with what the numbers mean, the following table will help:
| Mode | Permission | Description |
| 777 | rwxrwxrwx | Read/Write/Execute for owner, group and other. |
| 755 | rwxr-xr-x | Read/Write/Execute for owner. Read/Execute for group and other. |
| 666 | rw-rw-rw- | Read/Write for owner, group and other. |
| 644 | rw-r--r-- | Read/Write for owner. Read for group and other. |
Where a * is specified, it means all files in that directory.
For Windows servers, 777 or 666 is roughly equivalent to read/write access for everyone, 755 is not applicable and 644 is roughly equivalent to write permission for the owner and read for everyone. Usually, only your ISP can change Windows permissions for you unless you have some type of Windows/Webserver admin interface.
/usr/bin/perl then edit /cgi-bin/pd/pd.cgi, /cgi-bin/pd/pdadmin.cgi and /cgi-bin/pd/pdedit.cgi to make sure the first line is the correct path for your perl location.
If you are installing on a Win/NT system, it depends which web server you are running as to whether the perl path is recognised. If you are running an Apache server, the path would be set to something like C:\perl\bin\perl.exe
On Microsoft ISS servers, CGI scripts are usually recognised by their extention. Generally this is set to be .cgi or .pl.
/cgi-bin/pd/pdglobal.txt. You will need to define the following settings:
$pdroot - This should be set the the Full Directory Path of where the PD HTML, images and midi files exist. Generally this is in the /pd directory where your web documents exist.
$pdurl - This is the short URL to the above path. Unless you are using non standard or an unusual location, this will always be /pd
$expire - By default, the admin login cookie will last for your browser session. If you want to put a time limit on it, uncomment this setting. +1h means expire after 1 hour.
$DisableUploads - If you want to allow image uploads, then you will have to set the value to 0 and increase the upload limit in $maxpost to the desired size.
http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/pd/pdadmin.cgi. The first time you access this, you will be required to set a username/password. The default
username is pdadmin, but you can set this to be anything you like.
Once you are at the main menu, choose the "Edit configuration" option to set the following settings:
The Postcard Direct configuration is split into essential and optional configuration sections. Once you have correctly defined the settings in the essential section, you should have an operational system.
$WebRoot - Set this to the full URL for your site. Don't add any filenames to the path.
$TopLevel - Set this the full directory path to the top level of your web documents. This directory path is where your home page would exist.
$URLAlias - You only need to add this setting if your URL contains a ~, eg: http://www.yoursite.com/~peter
$Subject - Set to a default subject line if none is specified/required.
$Sendmail - Uncomment this line if you want the mail to be sent by sendmail. The path for sendmail is automatically determined by the pd.cgi script
$SendmailQueue - You can speed up the operation of the script by using the sendmail mail queue. This is also a more reliable way to send mail as the mail will stay in a queue if there are any transient delivery problems or sendmail
isn't running. The only tradeoff is that the mail will take longer to be delivered as it will sit in the queue until sendmail processes it at whatever interval is defined, usually 15 mins.
$MailServer - If you don't have sendmail on your server, set this to the Hostname of your SMTP mailserver. Leave set to localhost if the server you run the script on handles mail, otherwise set to the full hostname of the server that
handles your mail (generally your ISP mail server)
$AntiLeech - Set to 1 to turn anti-leech functions on, 0 to turn off.
$RefererList - Set this to a comma separated list of all the domain names that can call the pd.cgi script. You should also include the IP address/es if you find the domain names are recognised.
$SenderEmail - Set to the email address that the postcard will come from.
$SenderName - Set to the sender name of the postcard.
$ReplyTo - Set to an address if you want all replies to go to a single address.
$RequireSenderName - Require the sender of the postcard to fill out their name.
$RequireReceiverName - Require the name of the recipient to be filled out.
$RequireMessage - Require the postcard message to be filled out.
$StrictEmailCheck - If this option is turned on additional checks are performed on the validity of the email address. If it is turned off, then the email address just has to be in a valid format.
$Checkdomain - This checks that the email address has a valid domain, eg: .com, .org, .au, .nz etc.
$AllowHtml - If this option is turned on, HTML will be allowed to be used in the postcard messages. By default HTML tags are stripped from the message.
$CheckBadUsers - If this option is turned on, the email addresses of the sender and/or recipient are looked up in the badusers.txt file to see if they should be banned. This option is useful if you have a user is
complaining of unwanted postcards.
$CheckBadWords - If this option is turned on, the postcard message is checked against the list of banned words in the badwords.txt file.
$Diag - If this option is turned on, diagnostic messages will be displayed on the error page.
$Lang to the country code of one of the supported languages.
$Title - This is the default page title that is used if none is specified.
$WrapText - Set to the maximum width of the line in the message before it is wrapped onto a new line. This option will only be used if the message contains no new lines. This will occur when either the
TEXTAREA tag does not have a WRAP=HARD specification, and/or the user has not pressed the enter key between lines.
$MaxMessage - Set to the maximum allowable size of the message. This is to prevent people abusing the script by trying to send out huge postcards.
$MessageDB - Location of the message database. This would not normally be changed.
$LogFile - Set to a location where the log file will be written to.
$EnableLogging - Set to 1 to enable logging or 0 to disable logging.
$RemoteSites - Set this to the file that contains a list of all sites that you can specify a remote postcard image from.
$CacheExpiry - Set this to the number of days that an image can exist in the cache before a new version is retrieved from the remote site.
$Mode - This can be set to direct or traditional. If set to traditional, PD will operate like standard postcard systems, ie: send a ticket for the recipient to pick up their card. The
following options are only used in traditional mode.
$PostcardDir - Location of where the postcards will be stored. By default, this is in the postcards directory where the PD HTML files exist.
$PostcardAge - This is the maximum age in days to store a postcard on the server before it is deleted.
$UploadDir - This is the directory to store uploaded images. Note that this directory needs to be writable by the webserver owner.
$UploadAge - Age in days, that old uploaded images get deleted.
$Form - Template for the input form.
$UploadForm - Template for the image upload form.
$Sent - Template for the confirmation page when the postcard is being sent.
$Error - Template for any general error messages like missing cnofiguration files.
$InputError - Template for any invalid data entered in the postcard form.
$Stylesheet - Default Stylesheet (CSS) to use for postcards.
The templates consist of HTML code with special tags embedded in them. The special tags have a <pd_ prefix. You can also use special variables that a surrounded by percent signs %, for example:
%TITLE%
or
<pd_title>
These variables/tags are expanded to their appropriate value when the pd.cgi reads the template.
The reason that two methods are given is:
NOTE - You can mix both types of variables/tags if you desire.
| Form name | Description | form.html | This is the default form template and has the image above the input fields. |
| form-basic.html | This template is the same as the default template, but has the postcard design and music options removed. |
| form-side.html | This template places the image to the side of the form. It is best suited to images that aren't too large. |
| form-bcc.html | Same as the default template, but has a Bcc option for multiple recipients. |
| form-date.html | Same as the default template, but has a date option to allow the user to send the postcard at a later date. |
| form-fields.html | This template shows an example of using additional form fields. |
| form-colours.html | This template shows an example of using additional form fields to allow colour selections. |
| form-java.html | This template shows how to integrate a java applet. |
| form-traditional.html | This template is the same as the default template, but it uses the "traditional" method of sending the postcard. |
The following special tags/variables can be used:
| Variable | Special Tag | Description |
| %CGI% | <pd_cgi> | URL of the postcard CGI. Do not change this. |
| %IMAGE% | <pd_image> | URL of the postcard image |
| %OBJECT% | <pd_object> | URL of the postcard object |
| %WIDTH% | <pd_width> | Width of the postcard image |
| %HEIGHT% | <pd_height> | Height of the postcard image |
| %TITLE% | <pd_title> | Title of the image |
| %DESIGNS% | <pd_designs> | Select list of postcard designs. Uses the default design if not specified. |
| %MIDI% | <pd_midi> | Select list of midi files. |
| %OBJECTS% | <pd_objects> | Select list of the object files. |
| %DATE% | <pd_date> | Date selection fields |
| %HELP% | <pd_help> | URL for the Postcard Direct Help file |
| %PDICON% | <pd_icon> | URL for the Postcard Direct Icon. |
| %STYLESHEET% | <pd_stylesheet> | Inserts a stylesheet. Uses pd.css by default. |
| %FIELD1% | <pd_field1> | Free form field that can be used for any purpose |
| %FIELD2% | <pd_field2> | Free form field that can be used for any purpose |
| %FIELD3% | <pd_field3> | Free form field that can be used for any purpose |
| %FIELD4% | <pd_field4> | Free form field that can be used for any purpose |
| %FIELD5% | <pd_field5> | Free form field that can be used for any purpose |
| %FIELD6% | <pd_field6> | Free form field that can be used for any purpose |
You can change or remove input fields by using HIDDEN fields. For example, if you want every postcard to have a midi file with it, edit the form template and:
Remove lines:
<tr> <td><b>Music:<b>lt;td> <td> <select name="midi"> <pd_midi> <select> <td> <tr>and add the following line in the section where all the other hidden fields are:
<input type="hidden" name="midi" value="favourite_song.mid">
If you want to change which postcard design the form template uses, change the line:
<input type="hidden" name="design" value=default.txt">
to be which ever postcard design you want it to use.
If you only have a single postcard design per form, then you can remove the design select list, by removing the lines:
<tr> <td><b>Postcard Design:<b>lt;td> <td> <select name="design"> <pd_designs> <select> <td> <tr>
The following variables/tags are available:
| Variable | Special Tag | Description |
| %ERROR% | <pd_error> | Error message. |
| %SUGGESTION% | <pd_suggestion> | Suggestion message. |
| %DIAGNOSTIC% | <pd_diagnostic> | Additional diagnostic error messages. |
| %PERLVER% | <pd_perlver> | Perl version. |
| %SERVER% | <pd_server> | Web Server details. |
You can use the following variables (variables in bold are compulsary):
| Variable | Special Tag | Description |
| %MESSAGE% | <pd_error> | Error message. |
| %BACK% | <pd_back> | Displays a "Back to Form" button. |
| %STYLESHEET% | <pd_stylesheet> | Inserts a stylesheet. Uses pd.css by default. |
You can use the following variables/tags:
| Variable | Special Tag | Description |
| %IMAGE% | <pd_image> | URL of the postcard image |
| %OBJECT% | <pd_object> | URL of the postcard object |
| %RECIPIENT% | <pd_recipient> | Name of the recipient |
| %RECIPIENT_EMAIL% | <pd_recipient_email> | Email address of the recipient |
| %SENDER% | <pd_sender> | Name of the sender |
| %SENDER_EMAIL% | <pd_sender_email> | Email address of the sender |
| %SUBJECT% | <pd_subject> | Subject of the postcard/email |
| %MESSAGE% | <pd_message> | Postcard message |
| %STYLESHEET% | <pd_stylesheet> | Inserts a stylesheet. Uses pd.css by default. |
| %SENT% | <pd_sent> | When the postcard will be sent. |
To add more postcard designs, create the new design template and add its name to the designlist.txt file.
You can use the following variables/tags. Note that you need to have either %IMAGE% or %OBJECT% defined:
| Variable | Special Tag | Description |
| %TITLE% | <pd_title> | Title of the image |
| %IMAGE% | <pd_image> | URL of the postcard image |
| %WIDTH% | <pd_width> | Width of the postcard image |
| %HEIGHT% | <pd_height> | Height of the postcard image |
| %OBJECT% | <pd_object> | Embeds an object file in the postcard |
| %FIELD1% | <pd_field1> | Free form field that can be used for any purpose |
| %FIELD2% | <pd_field2> | Free form field that can be used for any purpose |
| %FIELD3% | <pd_field3> | Free form field that can be used for any purpose |
| %FIELD4% | <pd_field4> | Free form field that can be used for any purpose |
| %RECIPIENT% | <pd_recipient> | Name of the recipient |
| %RECIPIENT_EMAIL% | <pd_recipient_email> | Email address of the recipient |
| %SENDER% | <pd_sender> | Name of the sender |
| %SENDER_EMAIL% | <pd_sender_email> | Email address of the sender |
| %SUBJECT% | <pd_subject> | Subject of the postcard/email |
| %MESSAGE% | <pd_message> | Postcard message |
| %MIDI% | <pd_midi> | Embeds a midi file in the postcard |
| %STYLESHEET% | <pd_stylesheet> | Inserts a stylesheet. Uses pd.css by default. |
| %BACK% | <pd_back> | put a "Return to Form" button on the page when preview is selected |
| %SEND% | <pd_send> | put a "Send Postcard" button on the page when preview is selected |
PD is designed to easily support multiple languages. See list of currently supported languages.
English is the default language, although this can be changed in the configuration file.
You specify a non default language by using the lang parameter. For example:
pd.cgi?lang=br&image=/pd/images/photo.jpg
Each language is represented by its two letter ISO639 code. If no specific ISO639 code exists for a language, use the appropriate two letter country code.
To add support for a new language, you need to edit/create the following:
| /cgi-bin/pd/admin/messages.txt | This file contains a list of all the messages generated by the script. Add a translation for each message type. |
| /cgi-bin/pd/admin/languages.txt | This file contains a list of all supported languages. Add the two letter language code and description to the file. |
| /cgi-bin/pd/modules/pddates.pm | This file contains a list of the short month names. It is used in the form-dates.html template |
| /cgi-bin/pd/modules/charsets.pm | This file contains any charsets required for a particular language. The default is ISO-8859-1. |
| /cgi-bin/pd/templates/language | Create a new directory for the HTML templates and copy/translate existing templates. |
| /cgi-bin/pd/lists/language | Create a new directory for the lists and copy/translate existing lists. |
| /cgi-bin/pd/designs/language | Create a new directory for the postcard designs and either create new postcard designs or copy in existing designs. |
| /pd/help/language/help.html | Create a new directory and translate an existing help file. |
The format of the logfile is:
| Field | Description |
| Date | Date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Y2K complient |
| Time | Time the postcard was sent in HH:MM format |
| Method | Sending method. Either html, web or plain |
| Design | The postcard design that was used |
| Image URL | Postcard image |
| MIDI | Name of midi file |
| Object | Name of the object file |
| Remote Host | Hostname where the request came from |
| Subject | Postcard subject |
| Sender email | Email address of the sender |
| Sender name | Name of the sender |
| Recipient email | Email address of the recipient |
| Recipient name | Name of the recipient |
| Message | Postcard message |
perl -c pd.cgi
If no errors are reported, try running the script using:
./pd.cgi
If everything is correct, it will spit out some HTML code saying it requires an image URL.
Once you reach this point, try invoking it from your web browser using the sample image, eg:
http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/pd/pd.cgi?image=/pd/images/photo.jpg
/cgi-bin/pd/pd.cgi?image=/pd/images/photo.jpg
If you are using an media type like, flash, quicktime etc, you should use the object parameter, for example:
/cgi-bin/pd/pd.cgi?object=/objects/movie.swf
You can specify a remote image (so long as your cache directory and remotesites.txt file are set correctly), for example:
/cgi-bin/pd/pd.cgi?image=http://www.somewhere.com/images/photo.jpg
You can specify the optional title parameter if you want to use titles for your postcards, for example:
/cgi-bin/pd/pd.cgi?image=/pd/images/photo.jpg&title=This+is+the+title+for+the+postcard
Note that spaces should be encoded with a +
You can specify which form to use (defaults to form.html), with the form parameter, for example:
/cgi-bin/pd/pd.cgi?image=/pd/images/photo.jpg&form=myform.html
If you have multiple configuration files (defaults to default.txt), you can specify then with the config parameter, for example:
/cgi-bin/pd/pd.cgi?image=/images.photo.jpg&config=myconfig.txt
Or you can combine as many parameters as you like, for example:
/cgi-bin/pd/pd.cgi?image=/images.photo.jpg&config=myconfig.txt&title=My+Title&form=myform.html
Make sure that when you specify the URL for the postcard image you use the full document path from your web root ie: has a leading /. For example, use a path like /postcards/images/photo.jpg rather than
../images/photo.jpg
| Parameter | Description | Example |
| image | URL to a postcard image. | image=/pd/images/photo.jpg |
| object | URL to a postcard object. | object=/objects/cartoon.swf |
| title | Title of the postcard. Uses the default if none specified. | title=Some+Postcard+Title |
| config | Name of alternative configuration file. Uses the default if none specified. | config=myconfig |
| form | Name of postcard form to display. Uses the default if none specified. | form=form-java.html |
| stylename | Name of stylesheet to use. Uses the default if none specified. | stylename=newstyle.css |
| lang | Language to use. Uses the default if none specified. | lang=de |
| upload | Invoke the image upload form. | upload=yes |
/postcards/large (Directory for full sized images) /postcards/th (Directory for thumbnail images) /postcards/index.html (Postcard index page)then in you index.html page, you would use a link like:
<a href="/cgi-bin/pd/pd.cgi?image=/postcards/large/photo.jpg"><img src="/postcards/th/photo.jpg" border="0" alt="Click to send as a postcard"></a>
/cgi-bin/pd/pd.cgi?object=/objects/movie.swf&form=form-flash.html
By default, the form-flash.html template will use the flash.txt design template. If you want to change this, edit the form template, and change the line:
<input type="hidden" name="design" value="flash.txt">
To point to the desired design template. Note that the sending method is set to traditional via a hidden field. Embedded flash objects in a email is unreliable as lot of mail clients don't support it, or their security restrictions prevent viewing it.
/cgi-bin/pd/pd.cgi?image=/images/photo.jpg&form=form-java.html
You will need to edit the form template and the java design template (defaults to java.txt) to insert whatever java applet you want to run.
Note that the Java form template has no sending options. It defaults to the web method. This is because you can't embed a java applet in an email message.
/cgi-bin/pd/pd.cgi?image=/images/photo.jpg&lang=de
This example would use the German templates and German messages.
The default language is English, although this can be changed in the configuration file.
Also, see the example multi-lingual page to see how to use Javascript and a select list to choose the language.
/cgi-bin/pd/pd.cgi?image=/images/photo.jpg&form=form-traditional.html
You can edit the traditional.txt design template to modify the message sent to the recipient. You can make the traditional mode the default method by setting $Mode='traditional' in the configuration file.
If you want to allow users to upload their own images to use as postcards, you will need to change the following default settings:
In /cgi-bin/pd/pdglobal.txt, set $DisableUploads=1; and $maxsize to the largest size image you want to accept.
To invoke the upload form, use /cgi-bin/pd/pd.cgi?upload=yes
The image will be uploaded to whatever $UploadDir directory (default /pd/postcards) is set to, and will automatically be deleted after the number of days set in $UploadAge.
pdadmin.cgi. For example:
http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/pd/pdadmin.cgi
If you forget your password, you can reset it by editing the /cgi-bin/pd/admin/auth file and deleting the second field, eg:
pdadmin:
The first step is to get the current version installed and working by following the installation instructions in this document. As the new version of PD has a different directory structure to the older versions, there is no problem of overwriting or clashing files.
Once the new version is successfully running, you should copy the templates you want to keep from the old version. The locations and extentions for the templates have changed. The following table summarises the differences:
| Old Location/Name | New Location/Name |
| /postcard-direct/templates/form.html | /cgi-bin/pd/templates/en/form.html |
| /postcard-direct/default.design | /cgi-bin/pd/designs/en/default.txt |
| /postcard-direct/plain.design | /cgi-bin/pd/designs/en/plain.txt |
| /postcard-direct/midilist.txt | /cgi-bin/pd/lists/en/midilist.txt |
| /postcard-direct/designs.txt | /cgi-bin/pd/lists/en/designlist.txt |
| /postcard-direct/objectlist.txt | /cgi-bin/pd/lists/en/objectlist.txt |
| /postcard-direct/badwords.txt | /cgi-bin/pd/lists/en/badwords.txt |
| /postcard-direct/remotesites.txt | /cgi-bin/pd/admin/remotesites.txt |
| /postcard-direct/badusers.txt | /cgi-bin/pd/admin/badusers.txt |
| /postcard-direct/mimetypes.txt | /cgi-bin/pd/admin/mimetypes.txt |
| /postcard-direct/help.html | /pd/help/en/help.html |
You will then need to update all your links to the new path, for example:
Instead of /cgi-bin/postcard.cgi?image=/images/photo.jpg
use /cgi-bin/pd/pd.cgi?image=/images/photo.jpg
pd.cgi to pd.pl or whatever extention the web server is set up to recognise.#!C:\perl\bin\perl.exe) is only recognised on sites that run the Apache web server, otherwise it is ignored and is a function of the web server to be set up to recognise Perl
scripts.For the path C:\web\images\pic.jpg, you would assign it in Perl as either:
$Var="C:/web/images/pic.jpg";
or
$Var="C:\\web\\images\\pic.jpg";
or
$Var='C:\web\images\pic.jpg';
localhost as the SMTP
server, otherwise specify the fully qualified hostname of your mail server.The following limitations are known about:
<BODY BACKGROUND=xxx> tags, along with any <OBJECT> and <APPLET> tags. You should
make sure you design your postcard with a text colour that will be visable on a white background. You can get around the problem by placing the entire page in a table with a background colour.The FAQ is contained in this document.
Support issues can be found on the Support Forums.