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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