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Re: replacement for formmail



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.  

Doug.



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