When I installed that particular script, I didn't know any Perl. I had 
someone else set it up and I just did the ftping and chmods. I know more 
Perl now, but am far from proficient. I downloaded a script from the 
sourceforge site that looks like it's goal is to immulate the Kruse script 
without the security holes. 

I am also looking into learning PHP as well. I should have lots of time to 
read. I'm having major surgery next week and will be out of work anywhere 
from 4 to 8 weeks depending on how well and fast I heal.

Thank you all for your help,
Alisa


On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:37:35 -0000, "Aaron Trevena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote :

> > Art & Alisa Davis [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> >
> > > I have had someone hack into one of my formmail perl scripts,
> 
> Matts Scripts are considered harmful, as are quite a lot of the free 
scripts
> out there..
> 
> Most free scripts are worth avoiding, if you do want to use a free script 
go
> somewhere respectable such as www.4guysfromrolla.com for asp, www.php.com
> for php or any of perlmonks, perl.com, cpan.org, webtechniques, etc for
> perl.
> 
> > Check out this place:
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/nms-cgi/
> >
> > They should have a safe formmail.pl replacement. Their
> > mission in life is to stamp out the broken stuff that
> > Matt Wright's disseminating via his Script Archive.
> 
> Yes - All the scripts at NMS are designed to drop-in replace matt's (and
> other equally outdated/buggy) scripts.
> For this to work though they have to comprimise functionality and 
elegance..
> 
> If you actually understand perl - as opposed to just ftp'ing scripts 
you've
> found to a server and hoping they run - then there are many decent webmail
> modules and applications that offer more functionality and better design
> such as AcmeMail :
> http://www.astray.com/acmemail/
> 
> rgds,
> 
> A.
> 
> --
> Aaron J Trevena, BSc (Hons)     www.head2head.co.uk
> Internet Application Developer  Perl, UNIX, IIS/ASP
> 
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