in reply to Formmail or something else?

You might consider davorg's NMS, which contains a formmail replacement that's far superior to the original. It also contains some other nifty things.

You can also roll your own version by combining CGI.pm and MIME::Lite, which is what I did for a certain project. I found it to be a particularly painless process.

Finally, I recommend adding Writing CGI Applications with Perl and CGI Programming with Perl to your technical library (and, of course, reading them carefully). When combined, both books provide a very nice ground work for writing superior versions of everything on MSA.

--f

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Re: Re: Formmail or something else?
by ajt (Prior) on Sep 24, 2001 at 18:49 UTC
    Got hold of both NMS FormMail and STAMP. Will quickly evaluate them, and proceed from there. Many thanks to people for the quick suggestions.

    I have both editions of the Mouse book already. I know it's older, but I actually think I learned more from the first edition "CGI Programming on the World Wide Web".

    Looking an NMS FormMail, I see that it uses sendmail, which isn't an option for me on NT. I know I could use blat or something similar, but STAMP looks more useful as it talks directly to the SMTP server.

    Don't have the other book, will investigate it. Thanks for the comment.

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      On Windows, you can use Blat as a sendmail replacement.

      My preference is for using Mail::Mailer or Net::SMTP for sending email, but the rules for NMS were that the scripts should use no CPAN modules.

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      "The first rule of Perl club is you don't talk about Perl club."

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