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Title: Formmail on SME 5.6 - Advise
Post by: Graham on October 06, 2003, 04:39:56 PM

Hi All,

I was wondering about something . . .

As I am running a small webserver using SME in server only mode wether it would be a good idea, instead of putting my email address on a page - open to spam harvesters, to use formamail.

If this isnt such a bad idea how would I go about doing so with from a fresh install ?

Any pointers appreciated, even to other posts, I have read some about how form mail was exploited and to use PHP versions instead etc but as a complete noob (ok I just about know what CGI stands for) I do not have any appreciation of the issues involved !

Thanks in advance of any replies.

Title: Re: Formmail on SME 5.6 - Advise
Post by: sean browne on October 06, 2003, 11:32:23 PM

hi m8,

sending an email using a php page is quite straight forward.

in your form the 'action' needs to refer to a page that has soemthing like the following



uh... i am quite new too so if thats not clear let me know.

Sean

Title: Re: Formmail on SME 5.6 - Advise
Post by: Jens Kruuse on October 07, 2003, 03:20:04 AM

I use this: http://www.dtheatre.com/scripts/formmail.php

READ THE DOCUMENTATION!
(Sorry about shouting, but *everything* is explained in the docs + code comments).

Cheers,
Jens