Re: Help needed with here documents (security?)

2013-10-24 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <20131024183255.3c233104@sage>, you wrote: >On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:55:51 -0700 >"John W. Krahn" wrote: > >> stdin (and stdout) are part of a stream protocol and as such are not >> about files and do not signal End-Of-File which is part of why emails >> use the single period to signa

Re: Help needed with here documents (security?)

2013-10-24 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <52699767.2050...@shaw.ca>, you wrote: >Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> In message<5268663c.4040...@stemsystems.com>, >> Uri Guttmanwrote: >> >>> i think a blank line with . will end input to smtp servers. try that too >>> in

Re: Help needed with here documents (security?)

2013-10-24 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <7E7181F2497441C88988DD1F16E4A743@octavianf303f0>, you wrote: >From: "Janek Schleicher" > >> Am 24.10.2013 15:07, schrieb Shawn H Corey: my $email = Email::Simple->create( header => [ From => $sender_addr, To => 'ad...@

Re: Help needed with here documents (security?)

2013-10-23 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <40504.1382576...@server1.tristatelogic.com>, I wrote: >>> Well, I added to the script some rudimentary filtering/validation of >>> the input strings in question also. >> >>you need more than rudimentary filtering. make sure the from field is >>one string, no newlines or anything but

Re: Help needed with here documents (security?)

2013-10-23 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <5268663c.4040...@stemsystems.com>, Uri Guttman wrote: >i think a blank line with . will end input to smtp servers. try that too >in the line after the from field. DING DING DING!!! Give that man a cupie doll, because he's the winner of today's perplexing puzzle test! In short, ye

Re: Help needed with here documents (security?)

2013-10-23 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <20131023193228.38cf83e2@sage>, you wrote: >On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:12:12 -0700 >"Ronald F. Guilmette" wrote: > >> I believe that you may be on to something here, but it is more than >> just Postfix seeing a \n\n and believeing that it had encounte

Re: Help needed with here documents (security?)

2013-10-23 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <52684f18.2000...@stemsystems.com>, you wrote: >On 10/23/2013 06:18 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > >> ... >> print SM <> To: "Tristatelogic.Com Administrator" >> From: "$sender_name" <$sender_addr> >> Subject: Your

Re: Help needed with here documents (security?)

2013-10-23 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <39517.1382566...@server1.tristatelogic.com>, I wrote: >About a day ago, some schmuck set about to try, hard, to exploit the >personally written Perl code I have in place and that processes the >input for the contact form on my web site... I neglected to mention that this was obviousl

Help needed with here documents (security?)

2013-10-23 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
I'm not actually/formally a Perl "beginner", but this problem is making me feel like one. About a day ago, some schmuck set about to try, hard, to exploit the personally written Perl code I have in place and that processes the input for the contact form on my web site (www.tristatelogic.com). Fo

NEVERMIND! (was: What the... ?? (question about MIME::Parser))

2012-09-28 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
My thanks to Jim Gibson for responding and attempting to help. I dredged a little more in the available documentation and examples, and finally came up with the following which works and which also does the decoding that (of quoted-printable) that I needed... ==

What the... ?? (question about MIME::Parser)

2012-09-28 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
I'm not actually a total Perl beginner, but there are sizeable parts of the language that I know nothing about, and I'm kind-of in a hurry today, so maybe somebody will take pity and just point me in the right direction. The sitiation is simple... I have an e-mail message whose topmost header sa