I have in the past written my own form processors for email, and at times used MSA formmail.pl.

I know that formmail is quite old, and has it's faults. I did a very quick search and didn't come up with much except Exploit this formmail.pl for fun and, well, fun. (LONG), which seem to be somewhat critical of formmail.

Is there a more modern application available, and if so where is it?

Using CGI and one of the Net modules, plus a few basic modules it's easy to make a simple generic form processor and emailer, but I don't want to re-invent the wheel. However if it's an existing (safe and reliable) application, I don't want something that relies on Sendmail directly, as it must run on NT or Linux.

As ever thanks in advance.

In reply to Formmail or something else? by ajt

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