[wellylug] FormMail

[Michael Dittmer]

Thanks Jethro

Up to this point I haven't had any issues, but it will be something I 
will be looking at.

I'm not sure how much I can change I can make to the hosting environment 
to put protection measures in place, but I will talk to the company that 
runs the environment to see what measures they have in place since they 
provided the script but don't provide support for changes to the script.

Kind Regards

Michael


Jethro Carr wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 20:46 +1300, Michael Dittmer wrote:
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>> Hi All
>>
>> I have a formmail script on a website (running on a linux box in a 
>> shared hosting environment) that when you press the submit button it 
>> emails the address in the script. Up to this point in time the script 
>> has worked fine, however I need to make changes to the script so that 
>> when a person enters their email address in the necessary field they 
>> also get a copy of the email sent.
>>
>> The code I believe that needs changing is below, however I can provide a 
>> link to the entire FormMail.pl script file. I currently haven't 
>> developed the HTML form that the script gets info from as I have only 
>> been asked about the change this afternoon.
>>     
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> just a word of warning,
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> (You've probably already thought of this, but just-in-case)
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> make sure you use some means to prevent spammers from using it to relay
> spam to people - a spammer could write a program to submit the content
> they want, and supply addresses in the BCC field to get those addresses
> spammed.
>
> You want to limit the number of BCC addresses to 1. You should also put
> in a random human test (eg: what is this a picture of?) to prevent spam
> bots just repeatedly calling the page with a different address.
>
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