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Alternative to FormMail?

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Cadwalader

IS-IT--Management
Feb 12, 2002
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I found out the hard way that FormMail is highly exploitable. Is there an alternative?

Hope I was of some help...
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Thanks for the help...
--Rich

 
Write your own? It's not very hard, you could even cut'n'paste most of the FormMail script as long as you give the real author some credit ;-). //Daniel
 
Cool,

I will use that idea on my server. The original problem has been fixed by the hosting company. I could've fixed it, but I was denied permission to the cgi-bin for some reason. I emailed them and all is good now.

What the hosting company did was renamed FormMail to something else, and I had to make sure that any pages referencing that script were correct.

It's werkin now. Thanks. Hope I was of some help...
--OR--
Thanks for the help...
--Rich

 
If you use FormMail version 1.92 then it is even more secure if you set it up correctly.

Kind Regards, Paul Benn

**** Never Giveup, keep trying, the answer is out there!!! ****
 
Matt Wright, God bless him, wrote formmail when he was about 16. He recommends one script as a direct replacement. You'll find it here:

We have switched out the old formmail on our servers so clients can avoid the spamsters.

Dennis
Take Checks Online Using Your Own Software *Free Trial*
 
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