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Author Formmail.pl - Sendmail vs. Smtp
Hmmm...

2004-08-23, 3:55 pm

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.


Sherm Pendley

2004-08-23, 3:55 pm

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.


Matt Wright's formmail.pl? On Windows NT?

Ye Gods man, if that's what you do to your friends, what do you do to
your *enemies*?

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Chris

2004-08-23, 3:55 pm

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
chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk

2004-09-01, 8:55 am

Chris <ceo@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
ChrisO

2004-09-06, 3:55 pm

chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk wrote:
> Chris <ceo@nospan.on.net> wrote:
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> 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
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