Looking for way to block spam using formmail.
Hi,
When using formmail, is there a way to define who the email is sent to within the CGI script instead of using the actual email address on the HTML page?
For example, on your HTML form, instead of defining the recipient as an email address, such as:
<input type=hidden name="recipient" value="[email protected]">
Couldn't you define it as say a mailbox? Or whatever term you like, such as:
<input type=hidden name="recipient" value="mailbox 1">
Then you simply write into your script the address for "mailbox 1".
This way you would get the mail without having an actual email address showing.
Or is there another way of doing it with formmail?
Thanks
Orpheus posted this at 09:38 — 22nd June 2000.
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Joined: Nov 1999
Well, I suppose you could do that and osmewhere before the email is sent inside formail have something that says
$form{'recipient'} =~ s/Mailnox 1/[email protected]/;
that would replace it within the CGI program so no one could read your email unless they had access to the source of the program.
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