On 5/31/07, Nick Kew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 31 May 2007 08:17:13 -0500 "Frank Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> What's a good way to send an email from a handler module? Is > system("mail") OK or is there a better way? That'll work if you don't care about performance or security.
Thanks, Nick. As it happens, I don't much care about performance in my particular case as this email will need to be sent rarely. I don't need to send an email on every request. I do, however, care about security.
To fix the security, hack up a perl/cgi prototype and fix the issues that perl's taint checking complains of. To fix performance, drop the fork.
I should add some details. First, this is a pre-existing module in C, not new development. I need to look up a value in a database and then send a standard response email. There is no user input in the email so my security concerns are not what they might be otherwise. Second, I don't know anything at all about perl, although I suppose I could learn enough to solve my particular problem pretty easily. Can I chain a perl content generator behind my existing generator? If so, how?
