RE: Sending emails from ASP pages

by Charles A Upsdell <cupsdell(at)upsdell.com>

Date:	Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:07:53 -0400
To:	hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
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>Be aware that many hosting providers have disabled Formail, or any version
>of Matts Mail scripts.  There was a security issue of Matts being open to
>exploitation as an open relay.  To combat that, many hosting providers
>disabled anything named formail.whatever

It is easy to modify Matt's formmail.pl so that the recipient(s) are 
hard-coded in the .pl procedure rather than in FORM parameters.  This makes 
it impossible to use it to relay email.


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Chuck Upsdell
Email:     cupsdell(at)upsdell.com
Website:   http://www.upsdell.com/

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