Re: replacement for formmail

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:36:12AM +0000, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 02:58:00PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> > Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > >On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:51:00PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> > >
> > >>Anyone have any good recommendations for replacing formmail?
> > >>
> > >>I just started working for someone who is using it and we are trying to
> > >>lock his sites down more than they have been in the past and are looking
> > >>for a replacement.
> > >
> > >What is formmail?
> > >
> >
> > A buggy, insecure perl script used for sending mail from a website.
> > It's been around for a long time and a lot of people use it, but we
> > would like to move away from it. You can still see one replacement for
> > it using apt-cache if your sources.list file is pointed to sarge. You
> > can find it by searching packages at debian.org and choosing "any" for
> > the release.
>
> I've never done CGI stuff. Why not just rewrite it so that its not
> buggy? Use your language-of-choice. I would use Python but of course
> it would require that I could read Perl, which I can't.

There is a php version that is much better than the perl version.

http://www.dtheatre.com/scripts/formmail.php

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