Paths for Mailmerge

Detailed instructions for using Mailmerge can be found at:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/rootsweb/wizards/basicmm.html
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/rootsweb/wizards/mailmerge.html
http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~elsi/free-mailmerge.html

However, some of the pathnames given for the various servers are no longer valid. The current pathnames for the <form action> tag are:

Freepages:

<form
action="/cgi-bin/mailmerge.cgi/~acctname/templatefile"
method="post">

Homepages:

<form
action="/cgi-bin/mailmerge.cgi/~acctname/templatefile"
method="post">

Virts:

<form
action="/cgi-bin/mailmerge.cgi/~acctname/templatefile"
method="post">

The WWW server adds the directory "local" to the path:

<form
action="/cgi-bin/local/mailmerge.cgi/~acctname/templatefile"
method="post">

"acctname" is the account name you use to log in with FTP or the online file
manager. "templatefile" is the file name you have chosen for your Mailmerge template, e.g.

<form
action="/cgi-bin/mailmerge.cgi/~pasher/fgstemplate.txt"
method="post">

Writing to an Output File

These instructions for the Family Group Sheet form direct Mailmerge to email you the information from the form. Instead, you can choose to have Mailmerge write the information to an ouput file and have it displayed immediately on a web page. The ACTION directive in the template is changed from

ACTION=mail
to
ACTION=file: ~acctname/outputfile.html

On the Freepages server, the path is:
ACTION=file: /u1/a/c/c/t/acctname/xxxx_html/outputfile.html

where a/c/c/t/ is the first four letters of your account name, separated by forward slashes;
and xxxx is the community where you have uploaded the output file, e.g. genealogy_html, family_html, misc_html, etc.

These paths have not changed, so if you have a working Mailmerge output file, you do not have to change your existing template.

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