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Formmail.pl - Sendmail vs. Smtp

I am setting up a web site for a friend. Her hosting service does not
support Sendmail. It is an NT server. They recommend I use Smtp. I have
been using something like formmail.pl when I have been helping friends set
up their web sites. Does anyone know of a perl script that works like
formmail.pl, but uses Smtp. Thanks.
Jul 19 '05 #1
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Hmmm... wrote:
I am setting up a web site for a friend. Her hosting service does
not support Sendmail. It is an NT server. They recommend I use
Smtp. I have been using something like formmail.pl when I have
been helping friends set up their web sites. Does anyone know of a
perl script that works like formmail.pl, but uses Smtp.


See reply in comp.lang.perl.misc. This group is defunct.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl
Jul 19 '05 #2
Hmmm... wrote:
I am setting up a web site for a friend. Her hosting service does not
support Sendmail. It is an NT server. They recommend I use Smtp. I have
been using something like formmail.pl when I have been helping friends set
up their web sites. Does anyone know of a perl script that works like
formmail.pl, but uses Smtp. Thanks.


If these are really your friends, and you are really trying to help
them, then DON'T use formmail.pl to process their mail. Just DON'T.
Especially if it's Matt Wright's formmail.pl.

Write a real (secure) script that uses Net::SMTP or the many other variants.

-ceo
Jul 19 '05 #3
Chris <ce*@nospan.on.net> wrote:
If these are really your friends, and you are really trying to help
them, then DON'T use formmail.pl to process their mail. Just DON'T.
Especially if it's Matt Wright's formmail.pl. Write a real (secure) script that uses Net::SMTP or the many other variants.


If they don't know (or understand) what's wrong with formmail.pl then
the chances are that if they roll their own, they'll repeat all the
mistakes anyway. Use the nms scripts at sourceforge instead.

Chris
Jul 19 '05 #4
ch**********@roaima.co.uk wrote:
Chris <ce*@nospan.on.net> wrote:
If these are really your friends, and you are really trying to help
them, then DON'T use formmail.pl to process their mail. Just DON'T.
Especially if it's Matt Wright's formmail.pl.


Write a real (secure) script that uses Net::SMTP or the many other variants.

If they don't know (or understand) what's wrong with formmail.pl then
the chances are that if they roll their own, they'll repeat all the
mistakes anyway. Use the nms scripts at sourceforge instead.


A very good point.

-ceo
Jul 19 '05 #5

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