On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 16:36:42 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juan Nin) wrote: > Hannes Magnusson wrote: > > > Are we just suppost to know "Matt Wright's FormMail.pl" ? > > Matt Wright's FormMail.pl script is a very well known script, that's > been used by thousands of people for several years. So it was very > likely that many of the people who read the e-mail knew what I was > talking about... > > This list consists not only of PHP programmers, but there are also > people who know many other languages like Perl, or work administrating > servers, etc, so many can know what this script is... > > Moreover, the name "FormMail" is quite descriptive, and there are other > FormMail scripts written in several languages that acomplish the same > task, so not knowing Matt's script does not mean that you don't know > what a FormMail script is.. (obviously not everyone knows what a > FormMail script does, but obviously not everyone in the list should know > about certain topics) > > >Or are we suppost to google to check that out so we can answear your question? > > I don't expect that... > > I have many times googled about things that someone asked on a list and > I didn't know what it was.. just for me to know what it as, or to see if > I could help this person... I don't expect others to do it, but it > doesn't mean that someone can't do it either.. > > but I also expect a more polite reply than "you have obviously not read > the PHP manual" or RTFM, since it was definitely and obviously not the > case... I was not trying to be rude, just never heard of this FormMail by Matt Wright and have *no* idea how it works so I posted link to pear - in case you were new to PHP. Your post just sounded like you were hardcore perl writer trying out PHP.
- After having googled "FormMail Matt Wright" and checked it out.. ..don't know of any compatible PHP scripts, sorry. - Hannes > > I know this list is a bit differente from others, there are many newbies > who use to ask "how do I do this" without RTFM or STFW, and there is a > mix of *NIX, Windows and others users, and sometimes that sort of things > , which are always the same, fed up people, but I was not asking some > stupid question because of not RTFM... > > > Anyway, > > http://pear.php.net/package-search.php?pkg_name=mail&bool=AND&submit=Search any > > help? > > nope, thos are packages for mime decoding (which I have used in other > projects), access for pop or imap, or the most simple Mail package which > serves for e-mail sending, just like phpMailer would do, or even the > mail() function for more simple tasks... but that's not what I want... > > I know how to send e-mail, with mail(), with phpMailer or with > PEAR::Mail, I want a good and tested FormMail script.. if I don't find > one, I'll use my own written, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel.. > > anyway, I think I'll look in other places... thanks anyway > > Juan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
