You'd probably be better off using a form with a POST action to send the data to your script. (if only because there are limits to the length of a URL). I'd set some hidden fields using javascript (for all the data that's only available via JS) and let the user type in the rest in oridinary text/textarea fields.

Also, mail scripts should NEVER accept just any recipient! If you want to pass the From address to the script make sure you check it against a list of valid recipients on the server side.

There's an "improved formmail" script at the NMS scripts archive which should be easy enough to configure to your needs. If you want just the mailing code, try Mail::Send.


In reply to Re^3: CGI-mailer script by Joost
in thread CGI-mailer script by santander

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