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sammasati
06-01-2002, 01:36 AM
Anyone using this combo successfully?

What other options are out there for receiving CC's securely?

Noldar
06-01-2002, 02:32 PM
I would recommend trying Soupermail. It's Perl rather than PHP, but works very well. I ran into numerous problems trying to get GnuPG to work with PHP. Mostly security and permissions type things.

You can find Soupermail here http://soupermail.sourceforge.net/

If you'd like to give it a go with PHP this article might be helpful http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/20/index3a.html

Richard

jks
06-01-2002, 04:10 PM
Originally posted by sammasati
Anyone using this combo successfully?


Yes, we've used that combo for our customers several times - it works great!

What other options are out there for receiving CC's securely?

Well, we use a system where we never actually need to have the CC number ourselves (i.e. for a person to read) - the CC number is forward via SSL to a merchant server that handles the actual transaction. This is sadly not possible with all credit card providers :-(

sammasati
06-04-2002, 02:46 PM
Originally posted by Noldar
I would recommend trying Soupermail. It's Perl rather than PHP, but works very well. I ran into numerous problems trying to get GnuPG to work with PHP. Mostly security and permissions type things.

You can find Soupermail here http://soupermail.sourceforge.net/

If you'd like to give it a go with PHP this article might be helpful http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/20/index3a.html

Richard

I have seen Soupermail. What is you experience in using it? Is it difficult to configure?

Noldar
06-05-2002, 10:07 AM
Soupermail was pretty straight forward to get up and running. It has a self-configure script that can figure out most of the paths and settings that it needs to use. It took me about an hour to get it going and a lot of that time was just tweaking the template for the email output.

Richard

sammasati
06-05-2002, 12:35 PM
cool thanks, I will give it a try and see if I have any success.