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 -- "Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life." -- Eric Hoffer Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
