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netastic
10-03-2001, 05:20 PM
does anyone have any contact us CGI scripts other than "Formmail" that you can share with me. i have a customer that is developing his own web site and is looking for one. Formmail has too many security holes i'm told.

eva2000
10-03-2001, 05:43 PM
i started learning php and made my first script a form script .. works fine and sends a copy of the email to the sender as well as the receipient

you can find some at hotscripts.com as well

Chicken
10-03-2001, 07:45 PM
According to the web site, Matt has overhauled formmail (seems long overdue)...

http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/

mlovick
10-04-2001, 02:28 AM
If anyone is using formmail less than version 1.9 they should urgently upgrade!

One of my customers had 1.6 and we found that in just one day 6000 spams were sent via the script - we consequently got major greif from our upstream provider.

1.6 allows anyone to save the form page, modify it and then submit it from their desktop. The formmail script will process it even if the referers section is filled in properly.

1.9 solves this little (in my case big) problem.

nudetravel
10-04-2001, 10:39 AM
I have installed and tested v1.9 - what I like about it is that you can hard-code the recipient of the form, so it will ONLY send to that address.

Now what I need is a set-up script that will install it on ALL of my virtual sites automatically when I set them up.

Is there a way to do this?

Mark

Sun & Fun Nude Travel
nudetravel.tv

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Chicken
10-05-2001, 01:16 AM
Originally posted by nudetravel
...you can hard-code the recipient of the form, ... will install it on ALL of my virtual sites automatically when I set them up.

Well, since they have to edit the file anyhow, as you wouldn't want a hard coded recipient (the same one) there, what is the point? Unless you want something that pulls the admin email address from the site, and sets up the scripts, etc., as well?