Hi there,

I undertand that this is not really a qmail question but am
still wondering if someone here could give me some suggestioins.

I was asked to do some research on "running instructions contained
in a mail body", that is, users send their requests by mails and
the server parse the messages and then run the instructions
assigned by the requesters in the message body and perhpas if any output, send
the result back by mail to the requesters. It works just like
a mailing list but of course, the commannds I am talking about are not
'subscribe', 'unsubcribe'..., etc. I, personally, don't like
this idea. Firstly I feel that there might be security problems
though I can't exactly point them out now, and also, I think
the same function could be done easier and perhaps
more secure in the form of Web page (w/CGI running). I wonder
if anyone out there really have done something like this ? or
could someone give some reasons why this is not a good idea, so I
could convince my boss ?


Thanks in advance,

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Wang-hua Li

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