Re: Hide email from spammers

From: John C (jcliff_at_delete.email.com)
Date: 11/24/03 

Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 18:23:11 -0600

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:23:17 +0000 Geoff Berrow posted:

> I noticed that Message-ID:
> <MPG.1a2afb9f57ba43d89896ea@news.sunflower.com> from John C contained
> the following:
>
> >So, the form you posted at the beginning should be saved as
> >"something.php" (i.e. mail.php) and NOT as something.html in order to
> >serve the purpose of hiding the email address? And unless you have write
> >privileges a .php file can't be accessed on the server other than as
> >served up by http which will parse but not display the php code?
> >
> >Am I getting there?
>
> By George, I think he's got it. :-)

Thanks for helping me get there! I still can't get it to send email from
my "localhost", despite putting the proper smtp server in every .ini file
I can find that's associated with my Apache/php installation. I don't get
any error messages and it acts like email was sent, but it's definitely
not being received. :-(

Next I need to learn what the "security" issues are that people keep
mentioning with the formmail from Matt's Script Archive, in order to
avoid them. I found one called Jack's FormMail at
<http://dtheatre.com/scripts/> that incorporates some security measures
that look like good ideas. As you can perhaps tell, I like to understand
a little about what's happening before I run with something that's just
cut and pasted.

Thanks again for being so patient with my thick skull! 

-- 
John C

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