[ic] Form mail with Interchange

[Stefan Hornburg Racke]

Mike Heins <mheins@redhat.com> writes:

> Quoting Stefan Hornburg (Racke) (racke@linuxia.de):
> > Mike Heins <mheins@redhat.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Quoting Paul Jordan (paul@gishnetwork.com):
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm interested to include a form information request page , using
> > > > > interchange
> > > > > could some one send me a sample to start ?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > If you just want the info emailed to you, then you can use a standard
> > > > formmail script.  Do a www search for FormMail. You will prob find Matt
> > > > Wrights site, which you can download the scripts and directions. It is very
> > > > easy and works within IC, but you will need to have a cgi-bin.
> > > 
> > > If you do use that script, which I don't really recommend, please
> > > secure it against spammers.
> > 
> > Reads: Everything labeled with Matt Wright should go into
> > /dev/null or similar devices immediately.
> > 
> > Writing FormMail replacements isn't that hard.
> > 
> 
> If you want to see my first CGI script, you can go to 
> 
>     ftp://ic.redhat.com/pub/minivend3/unsupported/
> 
> and look at "guestnik.tar.gz".
> 
> This was originally written before I learned Perl 5, circa 1994. I was a
> rank amateur at that point, but I still think it is better than
> formail.pl. Certainly more secure -- it makes you set the email address
> in a config file and uses taint checking.
> 
> I think I updated it late in 1995 to support Perl 5 and use POD
> documentation. It still runs on Perl 4.

Hehe, any similarities with other existing programs are by chance :-)
Certainly better than the formmail crap. 

So if your last name is Wright, don't choose Matt as first name 
for your kids :-;

Ciao
        Racke

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