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Thread ID: 32634 2003-04-24 07:11:00 Spam-free formmail cgi Greg S (201) Press F1
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138461 2003-04-24 07:11:00 I should really know this, but lamentably I don't :(

I get a lot of spam from my websites' formmail pages - I have about 12 domains, so you can imagine that when a spam-bot does a trawl, I get a lot of the same crud coming to me from each site.

Now Aardvark's contact form (www.aardvark.co.nz) gets around the prob by using a script in his cgi-bin folder. Does anyone know how or what script to use?
Greg S (201)
138462 2003-04-24 09:02:00 Well he would be using "mailme.cgi".

I'd suggest that you have a look around for one which will do what you want. Or learn how to write your own.

There ofcourse other methods that you could do things as well. Such as posting it into a SQL database or something.
-=JM=- (16)
138463 2003-04-24 09:03:00 > Now
> Aardvark's
> contact form (www.aardvark.co.nz) gets around the prob by using a
> script in his cgi-bin folder. Does anyone know how
> or what script to use?

Yep, but do you know any thing about Perl or CGI??? Or PHP, ASP you could do a e-mail forum with that.
stu140103 (137)
138464 2003-04-24 09:04:00 Links:
www.worldwidemart.com
http://www.php.net/
stu140103 (137)
138465 2003-04-24 09:06:00 > Links:
> www.worldwidemart.com
> http://www.php.net/
> Edit: ** goes off to find his bookmarks on CGI scripts :)**
stu140103 (137)
138466 2003-04-24 09:30:00 Hey, I'm a site creator, not a programmer. What scripts can you show me for example? Don't quote me Matt's - his have been shown to be insecure these days. Greg S (201)
138467 2003-04-24 09:41:00 > Hey, I'm a site creator, not a programmer. What
> scripts can you show me for example?

I am not a programmer either!

Like what scripts e.g. CGI or PHP, ASP etc... Do you just want a simple mail scrip that collects the information off an form & e-mails you it???

> Don't quote me
> Matt's - his have been shown to be insecure these
> days.
Yeath but he has fix those problems
stu140103 (137)
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