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  • From: "Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>
  • To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] Favorite Form Mail?
  • Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 10:46:17 -0400

Recipient address hidden in the form opens you up to a serious problem.
Anyone can use your form for anonymous relaying of email through your
server.

T O N Y S P E N C E R
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tony AT tonyspencer.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf
> Of H. Wade Minter
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 10:23 AM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Favorite Form Mail?
>
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> On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Alan MacHett wrote:
>
> > Anyone got a recommendation for a favorite, easily-customized
> > cgi-script for form mail? Need I add, secure.
>
> Just avoid anything by Matt Wright. The NMS stuff
> (http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/) isn't bad.
>
> > Related: I'm not a scriptor/programmer, but shouldn't the
> recipient's
> > email address be in the script, rather than hidden in the
> form? ... in
> > order to avoid scrapers and other privacy issues.
> > poor example?:
> > http://help.earthlink.net/websupport/startersite/mailto.html
>
> It's a tradeoff. Having the address embedded in the form
> allows you to have one script that can be used to process
> mail from many different HTML pages. It does open you up to
> scraping. The tradeoff is to have a separate CGI script or
> config file for each form that wants to send different mail.
>
> - --Wade
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