I am setting up formmail on my web site. It is pretty straight forward but when I get to the help section about creating the HTML form, it says the only mandatory tag is the one that has my email address in it. I don't get it. I had to enter my email address in the perl script variables. Why would I want to enter it again within my form page and risk having an email bot spider it and styart getting spammed? Am I not understanding it correctly?
Question About Matt's Script Archive Formmail Perl Script?
change the function that checks for required fields.
in the check_required function delete any references to email.
Make sure that you do not reference any variable to send the email to. hard code the destination email address so your server will not be usefull to spammers.
spammers can use formmail to post to websites with whatever fields that they want, specifying any destination email that they want if the web masters does not modify the formmail program.
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