From: Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm not much less new than you, but I went through this recently and
> used Sendmail for UNIX server and Mail::Sender for SMPT mail on a
> Windows NT server.
I'm glad my module gets recomended :-)
There are other mail related modules on CPAN, if you do not need
to be able to send attachments you might like one of those (sorry I
can't recomend any of them. I'm too lazy so I use Mail::Sender all
the time.)
Another thing that might not be clear. Mail::Sender may be used
on any operating system. So you do not have to do it one way
under Unix and another under Windows.
> (ref ($sender->MailMsg(
> {to =>$Email,
> cc => '[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
> subject => 'Subject Text Here',
> msg => $Message
> }))
> and print "Mail sent OK."
> )
> or die "$Mail::Sender::Error\n";
>
> # (where $Email was pre-set from a web-form submission and $message
> # was
> a pre-set message in the variable)
This last remark made me reply to this email.
Please be carefull with this. You don't want anybody to be able to
send mails through your script to anyone. Keep in mind that unless
you test it the $Email may be a LIST of addresses. Mail::Sender
can take it. So someone could use your CGI script to send spam
and it would look as if YOU were the spamer. The fact that the list
of addresses is hardwired in the form that NORMALY calls your
CGI is irrelevant.
So if you need to do this, restrict the adresses to which the script
sends emails to certain emails or certain domain(s) if possible.
Restrict the access to the CGI. Make sure the $Email variable only
contains one address (or several if necessary, but keep the
maximum number small). Try to make sure the script is not called
ten times a second from the same IP address. Etc.
I'm sure others here can give you a lot more hints.
Jenda
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